is mainly occupied with activities of a very different kind. A
body of specially qualified teachers is required who can make
this most responsible work their chief concern. The Archbishop
of Canterbury has marked his sense of its importance by according
to women who have received special training a licence and
authority to teach theology, thus giving to the office of the
woman teacher a recognized place in the organization of the
Church.

Foreign Missions.
And when we look away from our own land to the vast needs
and perplexities of the world, we hear through all the tumult of
the war the call that is going forth to our Church for the best that
she can give. What return are we going to make to our Colonies
and to India for their magnificent loyalty in our hour of need?
Our Colonies have given to us the best of their manhood. India
has shown that though blunders and misunderstandings may have
sometimes marred our administration, yet she is able to recognize
England’s ideals of justice and mercy, and feels herself one with
us. And China and Japan? Are they to form their judgment of
Christianity from the spectacle of warring hosts, or can we show
them that the Christian ideals of fellowship and sacrifice are
something more than a splendid dream ?
Weare called to face problems of unspeakable complexity and
magnitude. How are we preparing to meet them? What is to
be our attitude towards the movements which are stirring the
lands of India and the Far East—to their desire to adapt to their
own needs the knowledge and the civilization of the West? And
more particularly, what is to be our attitude to the development
of the churches which are growing up in those lands? Have we
an intelligent comprehension of their different habits of thought
and life, a wise sympathy with their aspirations? Are we
prepared to see them develope on the lines congenial to them,
with their own ministry, their own forms of worship, not modelled
strictly after the pattern of our English Church and limited to the
use of our Prayer Book, penetrated as it is with our Western
modes of thought ?
The war will raise the most momentous questions in India.
It is giving an impetus to aspirations and to movements which
must have far-reaching issues beyond anything that we can
foresee. We desire that our Church should take her rightful part
in the solution of these and many another of the problems which
lie before us. She can only do so by giving them the most careful
and patient consideration.
But we recognize with shame that, notwithstanding her position
 and her great resources, she falis far behind not only the
Roman Church, but the Protestant bodies, with respect to the
number of missionaries she can put in the field. And it is