It is a very easy thing for the wardens and vestrymen to address the convention, after they have accomplished their ends, with “Your honorable body thinks we have done wrong, and--we are sorry for it,” or something else equally ambiguous and absurd. The officers of the parish and the laymen of the congregation have done what they wished, and are content. As the convention is composed principally of laymen, the sympathy is naturally with the laymen’s side of the question. The rector is hurriedly passed over, his clerical brethren looking helplessly on. To get a new parish the dismissed rector must “candidate”--a feature of clerical life most revolting to any man with a spark of manhood in him. We note, in the next place, an utter want of unity in the Protestant Episcopal Church. There are High-Church and Low-Church bookstores, where the publications of the one are discarded by the other. There are High-Church and Low-Church seminaries, where a man, to graduate from the one, will be looked upon inimically, at least with suspicion, by the other. There is a High-Church “Society for the Increase of the Ministry,” where the principal thing accomplished is the maintenance of the secretary of the said society in a large brick house in a fashionable city, while he claims to support a few students on two meals a day; and a Low-Church Evangelical Society, where they require the beneficiary to subscribe to certain articles of Low-Churchism before they will receive him. The one society is thoroughly hostile to the other, and, in point of fact, the latter was created in opposition to the former. There is but one thing in common between the two, and that is cold-shoulderism. There are High-Church and Low-Church newspapers, in which the epithets used by the one toward the other do not indicate even _respect_. Some of the “church’s” ministers would no more enter a “denominational” place of worship than they would put their hand in the fire. Others will fraternize with everything and everybody, and when Sunday comes will close their eyes--sometimes they roll them upward--and pray publicly: “From heresy and schism good Lord deliver us.” It may be necessary that there should be wranglings and bickerings within her fold, in order to constitute her the church militant; but we cannot forgive hypocrisy. With some of her ministers the grand object of existence seems to be to prove “Popery” an emanation from hell. With others the effort is equally great to prove the Episcopal Church as a “co-ordinate” branch with the Roman Church, and entitled to the same consideration as is paid by the devotees of Rome to its hierarchy. In both instances--viz., High Church and Low Church--history records failure. We notice next the relation which the Protestant Episcopal Church holds to the Church of England.