pastoral intercourse, personal life, will be enriched by converse with the pastors and teachers of other times. On the English clergy the Fathers have an especial claim. In England the Reformation rested largely on an appeal to Christian antiquity. Thus the preface to the first Prayer-book of Edward VI. testifies to Cranmer’s desire to produce an order of service “agreeable to the mind and purpose of the old Fathers.” At the visitation of his cathedral church in 1550, the Archbishop made it an article