St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1895-03-15
1llfatellatits.
DEAN STA NLEY.
written for the cALEDoNIAN,l

Waterloo was on all mems lips,
.had was born at the rectory of an
inland English parish. He was
canned Arthur, presumably from the
victor in the great battle, was school
edlike other English boys, came to
mans estate, and won position OF
singular usefulness and influence at
time when England had the making
Of many superior In Prothero's
"Iife and Letters OF Dean Stanley"
ave have well drawn picture of the
the boy and the man, and the read
iop of it's pages irresistibly attracts
rs TO that charmed and widening
circle, which, in two great empires
Yields to the singular fascination of
HE eyentful and wholesome life.
From Stanley's entrance at Rugby
N mid winter, 1929, DR.. Arnod's
first year as headmaster, our unhag-
ding interest is maintained to the
day when, at Westminster, he was
numbered with England's illustrious
dead.
During his school life, from his let
ters to his friends, we catch glimpses
Of his great instructor. Skill in de-
yeloping the best that was in his
boys was but a portion of DR.. Ar
noid's exceptional endowment.
Good fortune attended Stanley at
Rugby where he won many prizes,
and at Oxford, in November, 1898,
he carried off the Baloil scholarship,
beating Lonsdale, Eton's best man.
Up to that time this prize had never
been given to Rugby, but in later
Years it was repeatedly carried away
by Rugby men, conspicuous proof
that Di. Arnold's skill in instruction
did unfold the best that was in his
boys. Long after, speaking at Bal
timore, Stanley said, THE lapse of
Years has only served to deepen in
me the conviction that no gift can be
more valuable than the recollection
and the inspiration OF great charac-
Ter working on our own. lhope that
you may all experience this at some
,,me of your life as have done"
There is little doubt that Stanley
was the iavorite pupil of Arnold, and
at the death of the latter many ex-
ptcted he would succeed the master
ofRugby. This, however, did not
happen; but Stanley set himself the
-tverent though arduous task of pre-
qaring a memorial of his dead friend
Down to 1868 Stanley seducati ton.
al and clerical work was limited to
Oxford and Canterbury. Travel on
The continent and in the East enlarg.
4 ID his horizon and enabled him to in.
4uIge his tondness for historical and
typographical studies.
With his introduction to the prince.
yonsort a broader field opened to the
vision of Stanley. Prince Albert's
appreciation of his talents, led to an
invitation to accompany the Prince
ot Wales to Egypt and the Holy
and; and from this time on to the
lay of his death his relations with
he royalfamilv, both as a friend and
sJirltual counselor, were sympathetic
and intimate.
On this journey the Prince ant
Stanley were permitted to visit the
Mosque at Hebron, a triumph of di
plomacy, as it appears, on the part
Ut Gen. Bruce the Princes governor
'or since the year 1887 no European
kept in disguise, had ever beer
6nown 20 set foot within the SACRED
reclncts. This mosque, first Jewish
hen Christian and now Mussuman
presumably covers the Cave of Mach
2eIah, burial place of Abraham, Jacot
and Joseph.
On January 9, 1861, Stanley wa.
Installed Dean of that Westminster
abbey which has come to be the En-
Sllsh Walhalla, and to the last ht
abored ito sustain before the mine
" the nation the extraordinary valu,
of the Abbey as religious, nationa
and liberal institution" His work
here, besides his clerical duties, in
GUIDED, by exhaustive researches
some added knowledge to the story
Of the Abbey's tombs
He was asked, with Lady Stanley
% proceed to st. Petersburg, anc
AXE part in the festivities attending
me marriage of the Duke of Edin
ourg' He pronounced the English
service, and Lady Stanley represented
me Queen. His letters abound, al
ms time, in graphic pictures of tn,
>plendors of the occasion, and of the
people in high station he met.
A few years later he visited the
United States, where, as in Canada
1e was received and honored with
distinguished marks of popular ap
probation.
his temperament was so equable
ana his moods so remote from the
SH'remes of malice or injustice, and