{6} The following Resolution was passed unanimously by the Upper House of the Convocation of Canterbury on Feb. 10, 1899, after the presentation of the Report of the Committee (well worthy of being read) by the Bishop of Rochester. The Report is numbered 329, and, with other Reports of Convocation, is sold by the National Society:-- "That in the opinion of this House the use of the Revised Version at the lectern in the public service of the Church, where this is desired by clergy and people, is not open to any well-founded objection, and will tend to promote a more intelligent knowledge of Holy Scripture." {10a} Among others may be named the _Edinburgh Review_ for 1855 on Paragraph Bibles, in which it was said that it was now high time for another revision (p. 429); the _Christian Remembrancer_ for 1856 on the Revision of the Authorised Version (an interesting article); the _Quarterly Review_ for 1863, intimating that as yet we were not ripe for any authorised text or translation; the _Edinburgh Review_ for 1865; and the _Contemporary Review_ for 1868, a careful and elaborate article, contending that the work must be done by a Commission. {10b} In February, 1856, when Canon Selwyn gave notice of proposing a petition on the subject to the Upper House. The proposal in a somewhat different form a year afterwards was disposed of by a characteristic amendment of Archdeacon Denison. {10c} On July 22, 1856, Mr. Heywood, one of the members, I think, for North Lancashire, in rather an interesting speech, moved for an Address to the Crown to issue a Royal Commission on the subject. The motion was rejected, Sir George Grey expressing his conviction that the feeling of the country was not in accordance with the motion. {12} Preface to the Revision of the Authorised Version of the Gospel according to St. John by Five Clergymen, p. xii. As I remark afterwards, this preface proved to be very attractive, and by its moderation greatly helped the cause. The book has long since gone out of print, but if any reader of this note should come across it, this preface will be found well worth reading, as it will show what was in the minds of many beside the Five Clergymen five and forty years ago. {13} See Schaff, _Companion to Greek Testament and English version_, p. 367, note (New York, 1883). {21} The _Expositor_ for October, 1892, pp. 241-255. The article was answered by me in the same periodical two months later. {22} The account of the discussion in the Convocation of York (Feb. 23, 1870) will be found in _The Guardian_ of March 2, 1870. In the comments of this paper on the action or rather inaction of the Northern Convocation a very unfavourable opinion was expressed, in reference to the manner in which the Southern Convocation had been treated. But these things have long since been forgotten.