Williams,  and  the  Rev.  James  Fendall
against  Mr.  Wilson.  In  December  1862
the  Dean  of  the  Arches,  Dr.  Lushington,
condemned  each  of  the  accused  on  three
special  counts,  one  of  these  in  Mr.  Wilson's
case  being  the  expression  of  a  hope  that  all
souls  alike  may  '  find  a  refuge  in  the  bosom
of  the  Universal  Parent,'  and  that  '  a  judg-
ment of  eternal  misery  may  not  be  the
purpose  of  God.'  They  were  sentenced  to
suspension  ab  officio  et  beneficio  for  one  year,
but  appealed  to  the  Judicial  Committee  of
the  Privy  Council,  and  after  a  hearing  before
Lords    Westbury,     Cranworth,    Chelmsford,


and  Kingstown,  with  the  two  archbishops  and
the  Bishop  of  London  (Tait),  the  sentence
was  reversed  on  8th  February  1864,  the
archbishops  alone  dissenting  from  part  of  the
judgment.  As  in  the  Gorham  {q.v.)  case,  the
judges  disclaimed  all  power  of  deciding
what  is  the  true  doctrine  of  the  Church,
nor  did  they  pronounce  on  the  general
tendency  of  the  book ;  they  found  only
that  the  appellants  had  not,  in  the  passages
alleged,  directly  contradicted  the  formularies.
This  left  it  open  to  the  ecclesiastical  authori-
ties to  declare  that  doctrine,  and  protests
against  the  judgment  were  at  once  organised.
