New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-03-25
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
CHARACTERISTICS OF DEAN STANLEY.

CHARACTERISTIC OF DEAN STANLEY.
Prco,IEcrIoNs OF ARTHUR pENRHYNsTdh ss,rsred
late Dram .; =, WoSember 1882. BY GEORGE GRAN
nn xiv i42. Charles scribner's Sons
"Notbine could be further from my purpose
cows Dean Bradley, in the introduction 10 'heSe
racoilcctions than to offer this most Imperfect
.Letcb as in any way substitute for, OF even "a,
;ns,o,ment of. a biography OF Arthur oIali'y'
Jpdgrd with these limitatious IN Vle"' 'ni' 'n'n
cranh il exceedingly interesting and' unt,' a." "
ouate life of Stanley shall be written VIII oo ,"'
e. satisfv the popular interest IN him. Dean blai-
- 20 for many years the warm friend OF Stanley
and these lectures have therefore VlVlohesS 'n''
comes from personal knowledge and sympa'nS
Stonlev. while he made many and bitter enemies
bv his boldness aud love Oh u"'"'
n,oSe MANY friends by bis beauty
NJ life his charm of manner, his rare endowihen.s,
tits much to say that the reader of these pages VIII
Goo, oil This and will wish to know more OF the man.
Daan BRADLEY dwells much ON Arnolds mhnehee o"
S,a,lev NJ Rugby and deservedly; for undoubtedly
chat great teacher left q lasting impression upon
him In his later life he was never ilreu oI 'eiiS
what Arnold had done for him. "Rueby' he saiu'
sis the place where have spent five happy years
and learned knowledge, human and DIVINE as proo
ablv shall never learn ii again." Hewas not ioiu
nj the games then in vogue; the young parpar'"'S
Mt nlayD were not attractive to him. When Arhoiu
died some years after, it was this hero-pupn WIN
nreocbed the funeral sermon this hero-school-
master And. in he estimation OF many 0'""Ie'
bography of Arnold remains the GROWING WORK oi
his life .eL;
stanlev,s warmbeartedness strong trait OF MS
hor.o,er Once while alone and homesck at Naples
be casually met an English acquaintance IN the Mu-
sarm who said "Of course you have met Huen
Pearsonv-a friend. Hugh Pearson| ne exc'aihec'
and darted in search of him. He founh MIN III ilo"'
g ,rou-tno1vn statue rushed up to him. and, over
come with oy and emotion. fell into his fnends
arms with burst of uncomfortable tears.
Asa college tutor in Oxford, the impression that
be made and the work which he achieved were un-
e,ampled cit is impossible" says Dean brauley'
for me to describe TO you-it is dithcu LOT NE 10
auaIvze 70 mysef-tbe feehngswhich he inspired
in circle small at first but with every ireSn
term widening and extending. The fasci-
nation. the charm, the SPELL were simply
;rres,stble the face, the voice, the manner
Tho ,oirthfulness the merriment, the IN
exbanstible store of anecdotes and stories tolu
70 wildly SO dramatically shalnot easily enuu-
crate tho gifts which drew us to him win si"eu,
lar some of us with quite passionate ue'o''on'
Rnt even during his quiet, studious lie at oAIoru
he began TO enter into the turmoil OF theoiog'cai
controversy. Ii is not too much TO say thaU ho
was regarded with equal suspicion oy Dolh Tue
great historic parties III the Church OF Eng'anu,
because he spoke plainly of the exceuencles anu
defects of each. And probably no man ID lhr
Anglican Church has received SO much execratioh
Who deserved 80 much love. He was hated by the
low chnrchinan for his catholicty and by the hleh
cburchman for his evangelical charity. HIS whoie
,;fo was a protest against the narrowing
and yulgarizing process by which the or gl-
nal sense of great theological terms
Incomes defaced and marred and clipped
nv the base currency of the world, I'LL the woru
"eeelesiastican has 70 mean the retention or
abolition of vestment and the Church comes 10
mean not the followers of God throughout the
world, but priestly caste, monastlc ORDER IT.
lie sect handful of opinions. lie lved. III
word. for the enlargement of the Church and the
triumph of all truth" 1t was no mar
vel that such man was misunderstood
His championship of Bishop Colenso was perhaps.
the most unpopular. as it was undoubtedly one OF
the brayest and nobest acts of his life, 1t sub
;eeted HIM TO gross abuse. He was called upon TO
90 ont instantly from the Church OF which such
men proclaim themselves disafected and dlsiOyal
m,nistrrsn He was dubbed an Z" immoral priest -
a"traitor in the camp; and tainted with
committing graver offence than the tutor VINO
corrupts his pupils mind, or the trustee who roDs
the widow and the orphan Vi ther P'oP-
erty.n Nevertheless he came forward
in the convocation and told the clergy that if they
condemned Colenso they would condemn "sainted
Fathers of the Church, English divines and bishops
of unquestioned orthodoxy, and hundreds, nay
thousands, of The English clergy" And he ended his
defence OF an honest truthseeker against prejudice
with bold challenge, which was never taken up,
TO institute proceedings against one who. though
on some of these awful and mysterious questions he
has expressed no opinion yet holds the same prin-
ciples as those which have been condemned In
Bishop ColensO. That individual Is the one who
now addresses YOU Judge righteous Judgment"
Such were the storms and troubles that broke in
ON the peace-loving soul of Arthur Stanley. He
was not without faults, certainly not without lmi-
tations; but few men were as well qualified by
nature and training to interpret the wider message
of Anglican Christianity for the world.
THE NEGRO AS SLAVE, SOLDIER AND