Lord Russell had followed up his first letter to Mr. Chichester Fortescue by two more letters, in which he again advocated both the disestablishment and disendowment of the Irish Church.

Perhaps we may venture to prophesy that the disendowment of the national church will supply the next illustration on an imposing scale.

GLADSTONE'S LETTER ON THE ENGLISH CHURCH VI DISENDOWMENT VII

VI DISENDOWMENT Guardian, 14th October 1885.

Disestablishment has really come to mean, in the mouth of friends and foes, simple disendowment.

But there is no haziness about the meaning of disendowment.

When you talk of disendowment, you talk of taking from the Church, not honour or privilege or influence, but visible things, to be measured and counted and pointed to, which now belong to it and which you want to belong to some one else.

This is disendowment, and this is what is before us.

They are stronger men than the Liberationists who are going in now for disendowment.

The effects of disendowment concern England and its morality even more deeply than they do the Church.

As I write these lines one question is very urgent in the minds of Englishmen, that of the disestablishment and partial disendowment of a church.