The Express.
London, England, 1868-10-12 00:00:00

THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY AND
THE DIOCESE OF NATAL.

On the Bth of April last the Archdeacon of
Maritsburg forwarded to the Archbishop of Canterbury a
copy of a despatch from the Duke of Buckingham and
Chandos to the Lieutenant-Governor of Natal, concerning
" a report that it was in contemplation by some colonial
bishops to consecrate a bishop to take charge of the diocese
of Natal, on the aesumption that Dr. Colenso had been
deposed." At the same time he took opportunity to remark
on the conduct of the Gospel Propagation Society, of
which his grace is president, in expending funds committed
to it for the benefit of the church of England in foreign
parts, for the purpose of upholding a body in open FeCtlg-
iioll frM that church. Archdeacon Gray had the honour
to receive from his grace the subjoined reply :
" Lambeth-palam, June 9, 1868.
" Rev. Sir,—l have to acknowle the receipt of your
letter of the Bth of April, enclosing certain printed docu-
ments. With respect to the copy of the despatch of the
Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, you will, I have so
doubt, have received, before this reaches you, a despatch
from the NM Colonial Secretary of a very different cha-
racter ; which may perhaps lead you to conclude that
those who aide with you in supporting Dr. Colenso have
not so entirely as you suppose the sympathy of her
Majesty's government at home. The future may probably
show Us:r yet more clearly. As to the advice you are so
good as to tender me se President of the Society for Props
gating the Gospel in Foreign Parts, I trust that the
course which I believe to be mad conducive to the h .Hour
of Ood and the church sf Christ will be steadily par-
sued by me, through evil report and good report.—l am,
rev. sir, your faithful friend and brother,
"C. T. Ca.vrvax."

To this letter Archdeacon Gray returned a very spirited
reply, dated August 20. In the course of a letter of con-
siderable length, he writes:—" Your grace speaks die.
paria,Ungly of • those who side with me in supporting Dr.
Coleueo.' Permit me to observe that we—that is, at least.
half the clergy of the church of England in this diocese,
and a large majority of the laity—are taking part to-
gether in supporting—not Dr. eolenso, but—the law
of the land, which has declared, not only by Lord
Itomilly's judgment, but by the more recent decision
of the Supreme Court of this colony, that Dr. Co-
lenso is the lawful bishop of this diocese, the only
lawful bishop, with power either of effective or (as
our Supreme Court holds) of coercive jurisdiction,
conferred upon him by her Majesty. Being such, we
feel it to be our plain duty, whatever our religious
views may be (in respect of which many of us differ
widely on some points from Dr. Colenso). to recognise his
authority and render to him all due canonical obedienee,
unless and until the principles laid down in the above two
judgments shall be set aside on appeal to the privy
council. As clergymen of the church of England, desiring
to be faithful to our ordination vows, audits loyal subjects
of the Queen, we could not do otherwise. And I would
add, with all possible respect for your grace's eminent
position, that we should have hoped to have been encou-
raged and strengthened in the discharge of this our duty,
under peculiar, and to many of us somewhat tryinir, cir-
cumstances, by one, like your grace, filling the highest
office in the church under her Majesty, and one of the
highest in the state, instead of being taunted in language
implying reproach and censure."

The Bishop of London has published the sermon
which he delivered yesterday week in memory of the late
Dean llibnan. Some of our readers may not know that
the Dean's memory has been treated with scant reverence
in journals which affect to guide the opinion of the reli-
gious world, and he has even been written of iu the Lan-
guage of stern reprehension, as if he had betrayed the
sacred interests of which he was an appointed guardian.
In contrast with this unworthy treatment of one who was
an ornament of the church no less than of • society the
.
Bishop's tribute to Dean Milman's character and services
will be read with interest.
TIIE NEW BISEOP OF PETERBOROOOII.—The
Very Rev. Dr. Mesta, dean of Cork and bishop-designate
of Peterborough, is a vice-president of the London Free
and Open Church Association. Dr. Magee has bean very
active an promoting the restoration of the cathedral of St.
Finbarre, Cork, which will be opened on the non-appro-
priation system advocated by the association.
DEATII OF BROTIIEkt TRIPHOOK, OF THE
Cnsirmanotiss. Brother Robert Triphook, of the
Charterhouse, died there, iu his ti; h year, ou the 4th
lust, Ile was almost the last of the bibliopolists who
flourished in the reigns of George 111. and IV. Being
himself a man of extensive reading, and thoroughly
master of the best English books, not only in his Wade
but in his own library, his counter was for more than 40
years the rendezvous of the aristocracy and geutry—dt
ono time in St. James's-street, at another in Old Bond-
street. The author of •• Waverley" has gossiped again
and again with Robert Triphook. Sir Walter Scott em-
ployed the St. Jamse's-street bookseller to collect the
books of information on which he founded the •• Pirate."
Many a time Lord Byron has dropped into the Wilt` shop,
after a visit to his friend llebbouse, who at Trip-
hook's. Shelley, Leigh Hunt, Coleridge, Haslitt, Charles
lamb, Professor Wilson, and other tine spirits, have
lingered there to talk with the pleasant, garrulous old
bookseller. Of 13 brothers received within the walls of
the Cliarterbouse in 1530, Brother Triphook was the last
survivor. Thirty-four brothers attended the funeral
service in the chapel.
RCMOVRED IIk:LEASE OF IRISH POLITICAL PRI-
SON/M.— A statement reached Cork on Thursday that
the government had ordered the discharge of sir of the
Fenian convicts confined in Dartmoor Prison. The only
name mentioned in connection with this act of clemency,
or stroke of business in a political way by Mr. Disraeli, as
the case sus; be, is that of Edward Brophy, who, it will
be remembered, was arrested at Sandynsount, Dublin, in
September, kind, in connection With Jerns Stephens. Mr.
Brophy WY sulvequently tried at the sll3dll commission
of 1865, sod sentenced to ten years' penal servitude. We
don't make the statement with regard to the release of the
convicts on author it but as the indirect intimation of the
fact, which one of their relations in this city received.—
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THE POLICY OPI:NIVERSAL ENDOW-

111 E N7'.

"ENDowwErr of all, after the events of last
6‘ session, is out of the question." It is astonish-
ing that so many sensible mon should be unable to
assent to this, as it seems to most of us, self-evi-
dent statement of Mr. GLADSTONE'S. What
is the little rift which threatens to detach
more than one eminent Liberal from his
party just at the moment when considera-
tions far higher than mere party allegiance make
internal union a primary Liberal want ? In the
present state of Ireland the Church question is not
one which can be remitted to the speculations
of political theorists. It has to be settled

amidst tho duet and crowd of ti

cot:flirt. Our task is not the conaintoiko
ideal ecclesiastical polity, but ibe di/
meld of a particular church. in leliaterer
can be most certain of diseatabliatittgr

and surely. It is difficult to bolim
writers whose panacea for the evils
the endowment of Roman_Catholioism
_ _

over been at. tho trouble of reckoning up
the foram that would ho arrayed against such
a policy. In the first place, the rancour of
Conservative hostility would be in no way
diminished. Whatever may have boon the
designs of Mr. DISRAELI at the beginning of last
'mien, the notion of " paying the priests" has for
the time been abandoned. He has postponed the
education of his party to a more oonvenient
season ; and in the interval, as is his wont,
he allows them, with contemptuous indifferent*,
to parade their Protestantism at every street
corner. Moreover, the first hint that the Opposition
intended to commit themselves to such a proposal
would naturally lead the Conservatives to detect •

numerous via; in it which had before escaped
their notice; and the &daftlye rejection of the
scheme, to which the party would soon find
itself pledged, would probably draw to the Con-
servative side a good many waverers, who dislike
disestablishment, lees because it may injure
Anglicanism than because they fear it may
serve Roman Catholicism. This latter way of
looking at the question is not uncommon both
among Liberals and Conservatives, and whatever
strength it can command would all be srought
out against a party which adopted uni-
versal endowment as its political watch-
word. Religious aversion manifests itself indifferent
forms in different centuries. At one time English-
men were unhappy if they wore not allowed to
persecute Roman Catholics. At another time
they insisted upon depriving thorn of political
rights. Now both these evidences of feeling have
gone out of fashion, but the unwillingness to put
money into Roman Catholic pockets remains
as strong as ever. We see this oven in cases
where another English characteristic might
have been expected to koop this one in
cheek. If the everyday Englishman is unwilling
to pay Roman Catholic priests for actually
coming upon his premises and instructing
his paupers and prisoners, is it likely that
he will bo more inclined to pay them for services
about which he neither knows nor cares anything?
A well known writer in to-day's Time. charac-
terises this sentiment as a prejudice belonging
to " uneducated or half-educated portions of the
" Protestant community," and compares it to the
feeling existing " against the Roman Catholic
" Relief Act, against the Maynooth Grant,
" against any other act of justice or generosity
"to a hostile form of religion." Surely " An-
" glicanus " forgets that the really important
question at this moment is not whether this
sentiment is a prejudice but whether it is
largely entertained. " The uneducated or
" half-educated portions of the Protestant
community" are not necessarily powerless. On
the contrary prejudice is often able to withheld
for a very long period an act of obvious and press-
ing justice. It did so in one of tho cases " Angli-
" canes" mentions. Roman Catholic emancipation
was delayed for years became the reason and
fairness of the nation at large failed time after time
in overcoming the dead weight of prejudice arrayed
against the concession. Are " Anglicisms "
and those who agree with him prepared to see the
same process repeated with regard to the Irish
Church—to see a flagrant and mischievous wrong
kept alive and nourished because those who have
confessed that it is a wrong will not consent to its
removal except in one way ? If they are pre-
pared for this—if they think the abolition of
the Irish Church Establishment a secondary
matter in comparison with the realisation of some
Eraatian visions of their own, they are consistent
enough in doing their best to weaken Mr. GL an-
STONE'S hands. On no other hypothesis can they
hope to clear themselves from blame, and the vary
assumption which vindicates their political
morality is absolutely conclusive as to their want
of political vision.
But it is not only " the uneducated or half-
" educated portions of the Protestant community"
that would be found arrayed against universal en-
dowment. The feeling upon this point is very
decided in large numbers both of Dissenters and
Churchmen, who are by no means open to
the taunt conveyed in the phrase of " Anglicans."
Those who think that religion flourishes best under
a system of Free Churches, and that the relation
of a Church towards the community it has to
convert had better not be that of servant and
employer, will not look favourably on a system
which proposes to subsiclise three creeds for
the future as a sort of homoeopathic
penance for having subsidised one in the
past. It is difficult to estimate the strength
of those who are thus minded; but, take
the country through, they can hardly be eufficio^tly
few to make it safe to disregard their opposition.
Nor is the list of adversaries yet exhausted. There
is another class of persons who, without expressing,
perhaps without oven caring to form, an opinion
on the abstract merits of the proposal would never-
theless regard with determined hostility any at-
tempt to apply it to the present circumstances of
Ireland. It may be well to indicate one out of
many grounds on which this hostility is based.
The position of the Irish Roman Catholic clergy,
unsatisfactory as it may bo in some re-
pects, has one compensating advantage which many
Roman Catholics, as well clergy as laity, would
be extremely loth to surrender. The very fact of
their dependence on their people does, to some
extent, ensure their independence of their
bishops. If a popular priest becomes obnoxious
to the superior authorities not an unknown
occurrence, probably, in any religious community—
the latter have to think ta►ioe before they can ven-
ture on removing him to another parish or suspend-
ing him from active work. The income of the
incumbent and the maintenance of the religious
institutions connected with the parish depend
so largely upon the goodwill of the
people, that a bishop is naturally fearful lost
the flow of their liberality should be checked by
an injudicious attempt to divert it towards a new
pastor. The Roman Catholic church in Ireland is
in some respects the most democratic church in
existence. Every organisation, religions or secu-
lar, takes its tone in some measure from those who
supply its material support, and the paymaster
of the Irish Roman Catholic Church is the
peasant laity. We do not say that such a state
of things as this has not serious drawbacks, or
that the °sister,* of these drawbacks is not
admitted oven by those who are anxious
to see it maintained. But in a church
where the power of the hierarchy in
so great as it is in the Church of
Rome those who wish this power to be restrained
within reasonable limits are naturally unwilling to
surrender a safeguard which strengthens the
priest against the bishop through the medium of
an indirect lay control.

interview at Madrid with General Pans,
and has since counselled his party through-
out the Peninsula to strongly support
the government in ita policy. Hems it is
inferred that that policy will not be unfavour-
able to a republic. The difficulty in the way of
the monarchy is the finding a monarch. The
Crown at this moment would have to be taken
with conditions which would render it little more
than a name. The general proclamation by
the Juntas of liberty of oonscience is very lilmely
to be:misunderstood, and some contiaental oortell-

pondenta caution Englishmen in particular against
too rapid eonoluidons on the *abject. Spain, they
say, is a Catholic country which contains many
free-thinkers but no Protestants, and 'what is
meant by freedom of worship is something quite
passive—it is much less the power to open new
churches than the right to keep away from the
old ones.

lINOVCCZNIFUL as attempts on the pert of the
Liberals to oust Mr. NEWDEOATZ from the repre-
sentation of North Warwickshire have hitherto
been, there is every reason to anticipate the return
of Messrs. MIIIITZ and Flow= on the present iv-
(lesion. At the last general election Mr. hitrzrn
was defeated by a majority exceeding 700 votes.
But the Reform Act has added 3,000 new electors
to the constituency, a large majority of whom are
believed to be Liberals. Should they now support
Messrs. MUNTZ and novrict, it is more than
probable that Mr. Nawnzaan will not be
a member of the new Parliament, an exclusion
which will be of some significance, considering
his opinions on oc.olesiastical questions.

A GREAT majority of the Liberal party of
Brighton, we are assured, disapprove of the
attempt of Mr. CONINGILAY to divide the
Liberal interest for that borough, as it is
understood the Tories of Brighton were only
waiting for such an occurrence to bring forward

a candidate. It was on the occasion of Mr.
CoNnvonstee voluntary retirement from ita repre-
sentation that Professor FAwczn, with Mr.
ComeauAm's ooncurreoce, came forward, and u
the Liberal party generally there is satiafied with
Mr. Fewerrfe conduct in the House of Commons,
Mr. CONINGIIA3IO 8 candidature is a surprise oven
to his own personal friends in the town.

WITILE Imperialists in France retain the power,
the Opposition keeps the wit. The fine blade
of epigram constantly gleams in the Liberal ranks.
PREVOST PARADOL, a master of fence, writes
to the government journal, the Petrie, to contra-
dict a report that, wishing to bo a respectful eye-
witness of " the collapse of a dynasty," he had
figured amongst the persons who accompanied
Queen Isesxu.t. from St. Sebastian to Pau. As
to the " collapse of a dynasty," adds M. PAILADOL,
" that, as you know, is a spectacle too often
" afforded Parisians for them to take the trouble
" to leave home to see it ; and permit me to add
" that you and your friends neglect nothing
" which can secure the sight for the present gene-
" ration." It is a wonder the Petrie should risk
an electric shock of this kind from M. PARADOL.

OUR CONTEMPORARIES.
(THIS DAY.)

ounaroza's mows.

The Tinto complains of Mr. Gladstone's addros
to ha constituents that it is somewhat feeble in tempest-
lion and not very weighty in argument Bch like Yr.
Disraeli, Mr. Gladstone has his difficulties. Even were
be willing to commit himself with a policy of a bold and
original character, it must be remembered that he has to
deal with a constituency newly ailed into eidetic" the
representatives it has yet to choose, a government that
may never be at all, and circumstances beyond 01ov:resat
anticipation.

The Daily News says Mr. Gladstone's address is in
almost every respect a centred with that of hie rival. It
declares a policy. Where the Prime lEnisier indulges in
inaccurate and misleading generalities, the leader of the
opposition supplies the needed correction by the peeeies
statement of facts. Mr. Disraeli appeals to blind bigotry
and uninetructed pension. Mr. Gladstone invokes the na-
tional reason and conscience to the performance of a great
work of conciliation and justice. The nation
bas now to choose between Mr. Gladstone's policy and
Mr. Disraeli's perplexity, between a master of statesman-
ship and a master of phrases, between a consummate ad-
ministrator and a dexterous parliamentary manager,
between a man of earned purpose and conviction and a
man who, with many high gifts, has never treated poli-
tics otherwise than as a fascinating game of skill or •
career of daring adventure. The Daily News has not •
shadow of doubt as to the issue of the struggle.
In the opinion of the Herald, the address, considered as
a reply to the manifesto of the Premier, mamas the pro-
portions of a catastrophe. 8o far as it deals with the
points raised by Mr. Disraeli it is characterised by
evasiveness and inaccuracy, and as fur the Irish church
question Mr. Gladstone attempts no reply whatever. The
address is, in short, a tissue of misrepresentations meat
and dinuptionist aphorisms.

TE2 MIME 117100111910 Y.

The Spaniards have a notion, says the Ibsf, that if they
will give the crown of Spain to the Duke of Edinburgh,
England would in return give back Oibraltar. Our con.
temporary, however, assures the Spaniards that if the
rock fortress is to be given up, the surrender will not be
caused, or even hastened, by her electing an English
prince for Xing, but will be attributable to motives
of justice or expediency. No doubt such a selec-
tion on the part of the Spaniards would be a
compliment to the English throne and people; but there
is so much royal work to do in this country that the Duke
of Edinburgh could ill be spared. With respect to the
rumour current in Paris that England is plotting to ob-
tain the Spanish throbs for his royal highness, the /bit re-
marks that the duke's election would not in the least di-
me influence our continental policy. Weber's an Wand
in Spain becoming strong, liberal, and prosperous: but it
will net matter to us what is the form of government, or
who is the chief magistrate),

gin court.

BALMORAL CASTLE, Our. 9.

The Queen wont out yesterday morning, 11000111 r
palsied by Prisons Oltristian, and in the animas her
Maprily drove oat, assorayanied by Primes Loafs, ma
attended by Lady Churchill and the Has. Mary Laos.
Princes Midi= and the Princes of Test drove or
in the afternoon.
Princes Beatrice and Prince Leopold drove to Brae-
near.
Prime Arthur, Prins Obsidian, and Prins Talk went
out deer stalking. _

Our. 10.

The Qum want out regatta, ineettlag, asomeemied
by Prineess Cloistiao, awl is the ateemeett her Notaty
drove oat, &CCOMplikli by Primes Louise.
PAMIR Christian sad the Pitmen ot Teak treat out

--- Pri—ce
Tack went out door stating.

The Prinoses of Wale, drove out on Saturday afternoon,
attended by the Has. Mrs. Oaks.
In the evening therrinoe and Princess of Waft, meow
panisd by Prime John of Olneksbarg, and attended by
the Hon. Mrs. Coke and Lieutenant-Colonel Kappaiorent
to the Queen's Theatre.
The Prince and Primus of Wales and Prince John of
Glooksbarg, with the Hon. Mrs. Coke and Lieut.-Colonel
Koppel in waiting, attended Divine service at the Chapel
Royal, St. Jamie's, yesterday.
The service was performed by the Bey. the Subdeen, the
Hey. Albert H. Sitwell, and the Bev. W. Drake.
Anthem, "Phis the Lord," Goes.
Mr. Cooper presided at the organ.
The essmon was preached by the Bev. W. Drake from
St. Matthew, ch. viii., part of vane Mt
Despatches were received on Saturday at the Colonial-
Mike from the Governors of Drilla Columbia, the Cape of
Good Hope, Natal, and St. Helena. Devoid'es were
scat to the Governors of the North American Provinces
and British Columbia.

Mr. Hilary Skinner, who ham reeently returned front the
Island of Crete, had an interview with Lord Stanley at
the Foreign-offioe on Saturday.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
of Wales, Prince John of Denmark, and fad* again
honoured the Queen's Theatre with their presence on
Saturday evening.

The Buchan Emily of Beaufort is expected to
arrive in town in the course of the preeeet weak from the
Earl sad Counties of Hinnotill'e seat, Dopplin Castle,
Ptethshire.

The Lord Chancellor, who is staying at Belmont
House, near Hewitt, will reorive the Lord Mayor Elect,
Alderman J. C. Lawrence, and the members of the cor-
poration of tho city of London, on the End proximo, at
Cromwell Rouses. The noble and learned lord will after-
wards receive the judges of theseveral law courts, it being
the Ant day of Michaelmas Term.

The Right Hon. H. T. L. Corry, M.P., First
Lord *of the Admiralty, will shortly resume his official
duties, his health being considerably improved. The
right boa. gentleman is expected home shortly from the
Continent.

The Ilarreian Society will hold its first meeting
on Thursday next, the 15th hurt., when Dr. llandfteld
Jones will read a paper on "Sunstroke."

The Pathological Society will commence ite
sittings on 'Tuesday, the 20th inid.

We (London ikotnnan) have pleasure in stating
that the Gaelic Society will on Tuesday neat resume its
meetings for the season at the rooms in Bedford-row.
The objects of the society are to keep alive the use of the
Gaelic language by conversation, and by reading and
witting in it—to anewarage its literature and music, end
to stimulate among Highlanders the cultivation of friend-
ship by social intercourse. _ _

A general meeting of the members of the
Medical club will be hold at No. 9, Spring-gardens, on
Wednesday next, October 14, at 2 p.m. Sir William
Fergus,'" Bart., will occupy the chair.

I. British oyster oommiasThon, understood to be
under government patronage, are to vita the oyster beds
of Frame, and report thereon. The gentlemen named as
canto. lag the commission are Nam Blake, Francis, and
Hunt. The cultivation of the oyster has during the lad
few years occupied considerable attention in France, and
an "oyster exhilitlon" has been held in the Bois do
Boulogne. The consumption of the oyster has greatly in-
creased in France, because eaten by a clue of people who
formerly never indulged in such luxuries. Then again the
railway distributes this delicacy all over the country.
Thus it is that the common large French oyster, which
the English epicure would not care to eat, is now selling
in Paris for 30 sous, or ls. 3d. per dam. Five years ago
the same oysters were sold in Paris at 6d. per doyen.

The Journal de Paris sap the Emperor Napo-
leon has been taking dai'y walking exercise for several
hews, and that he only suffers occasionally from hza rheu-
matism.

The Gaukis remarks one curious ooinoidenoti.
Adelina Patti (Marquise de Cum) has taken an apartment
154, Champs Ely Wee, exactly above that occupied by
Victoria Baits, daughter of the composer of the " Babe-
when Girl," he., and henelf an actress, who, by her
marriage with Sir John Orampton, Dart.. became Dogfish
ausbamedress to St. Petersburg, and by her subsequent
marriage to the Dec de Pries, the wife of • Spanish
grandee.
John Savage, one of the New York Fenian head
centres, intends to sail for Europe about the middle of
October, landing at Havre.
From the Ist of January to the middle of gep-
Umber 70,000,000 gallons of petroleum were exported
from the United States.

About s dozen rabbits wore let loose in Barwon
rant, belonging to a gentleman named Austin, in South
Australia, some few years ago, and recently, in one year,
15,000 rabbits were killed on the estate. The partridges
let loose failed to increase in numbers. The pheasants
multiplied 'try slightly, owing to a want of cover ;
Imes, likewise, did not do well, they do not appear to
like the native greases. The rabbits are not only very
numerous but very large. _ _

Kangaroos have increased to such an extent in
the wrath-east of South Australia as to become a serious
injury to the colony, as they starve out the sheep. The
inereese of the kangaroo has arisen from the destruction
of the native dog and the decrease of the Aborigines. A
kangaroo league has been projeeted for the purpose of
extirpating the kangaroos, or to endeavour to make
their skins a marketable commodity, so that it may be
Timetable to hunt the animals down and thus keep their
numbers within bounds.

Arrangements are being made in the clamp at
eldershott to provide Imbue. and other amusements for
the twain daring U Coming iviattr. Dramatic remain.
talons Ali the Most popular, and whim military subjects
are chasm for Outran= they are invariably placed upon
the stage in a highly creditable meaner.

An Eton boy who was crow-examined the other
day by one of the royal oommissioners—hhooelt an old
Etonian—as to why fighting had gone out at Eton lately,
answered that "he supposed it was because fellows hinked
each other."

FUNEELL SERMON ON THE LATE CANON HAW-
RiNs.—YeaterclAy morning a funeral sermon on the late
Rev. &nest Hawkins, 8.D., Canon of Westminster, was
We
the Rev. Christopher Wordsworth, D.D.,
Cot 13 Westminster and Areacm. The venerable
archdeacon said that last Sunday swains on quitting that
church he was called to the bedie of one who bad now
entered into his rest lie had instructed others bow to
die by his pastoral " Devotional
Commentary ca the Book of " his " Household
/iturgy," and by the " Manual of yeas," which he
bad eon for the not bed and the death bed, sad now
he • was about to do what he had taught many others
to do—to die a happy death after a holy life. He wadi eat
dwell on the calm composure and bow serenity of hie
emeteseumepatralted up with angelic g and
sheeet
household at his and tmiwith whi
gave h he
its
them • fere
charge, while with slow l sawn voice he attest g
confession of the faith la "Ida he bad lived, sad
and
hoo
give hi broth Macho) r s blam tot hhi in g. ad an his venerable heed.
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