IT IS common knowledge that the question of the Quicunque Vult will engage the attention of the Bishops in their final session at Lambeth next week. In many quarters the greatest anxiety is felt lest their lordships should lend their support to the renewed attempt to oust it from the public services of the Church. The temptation to follow the line of least resistance is not always resisted by the Episcopate, and in this particular instance the temptation is especially strong. Unquestionably, the popular thing to do is to yield to the clamour of the multitude, which does not like Creeds and Expositions of the Catholic Faith. We admit that dislike of this venerable hymn of the Faith is not confined to “the man in the street”, but the strength of the opposition is vastly increased by his support. A great responsibility rests upon the Bishops. If they lay violent hands upon the Quicunque Vult they will arouse a storm of indignation which may lead to serious consequences, and will certainly wound the minds of devoted Churchmen. At no time more than the present was the teaching of the Athanasian formula so salutary. It is possible to contemplate with less alarm, but not without profound regret, a proposal to recognise it as within the Bishop’s jus liturgicum to dispense with the recitation of the Quicunque Vult on some of the days appointed for its use. Yet there is at once aroused a fear lest this should prove only the beginning of the end; and the safest, though not the easiest, plan is to leave matters as they are, and to place upon those who will not recite the Quicunque Vult the responsibility of absenting themselves from Morning Prayer on those days when its recitation is enjoined.