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| made Il impossible for me to think Of any.
thing except a retirement altogether from
public offioe. But Gladstone was YER.
kind. and people around him talked In a
way which accounts for the newspaper
gossip. Benson is. / really believe, the
best choice that could have been made
In England Before closing this outline
OF Churoh's life, we should note that, not
wthstanding the earncstness and efficiency
| Of his devotion to the duties OF his Office
while he was Dean Of st. Pauls, IL was
| during this period that he wrote most oil
the book by which he became known to
| American readers. He had just COM
pleted the revision Of the proof sheets OF
his book Oh the Oxford Movement which
| was published after his death, when he
passed away on Dec. TO- 1890, only few
| months after his coadjutor In cathedral
work, Canon IIddon, and his lifelong friend.
Cardinal Newman.
| We pass to some extracts from the cor
| respondence printed in this volume. In
letter TO DIR. Moberly, we find a reference to
the once famous collection of Essays and
Reviews which appeared in 1890. ut
seems to me, he writes. that this Is a book
| for a point blank answer mean that II Is
not enough to point out, as you truly do,
the way in which II shakes to pieces the
| faith Of ordinary Christians, but, for
| any effect TO be produced. the main things
| said must be met face to face and their
| real value and Significance duly measured.
| What" he continues, SIS the human ele-
! ment In Scripture2 What is it's real amount
| How Is 1t to be viewed2 How Is TO be dis
| tingliished from the divine element These
men treat II so as to exclude the Divine
almost entirely but see no way Of stop
| ping them. except by meeting the question
| they have raised as far as the bounds OF
our knowledge enable us to do so" Again,
-The main thing seems TO me that we must
meet them on the ground which has be-
J come Inevitable almost, that OF actual his
torical criticism, and that their power lies
In their being left alone in possession oft
To Prof Asa Gray of Harvard University.
| who had sent him an article on Darvins
| sOrigin Of Species" he writes in March.
| 1851: The more | think Of IL, tho more
| feel persuaded Of the 'shortness Of thought.
which would make out what is in Itself
purely physical hypothesis on the mode of
| creation or origination to be incompatible
with moral and religious ideas Of an entirely
different order. But l am afraid that this
is the general way of thinking among our
religious people; and so the theory does not
get fair discussion, either for or against,
because there is on both sides an irresistible
tacit reference to other interests In the
minds of disputants. You seem TO me TO
| have cleared the way for n fair discussion
OF il on it's merits and evidence"
Notwithstanding the frequent inter-
change OF letters between Church and
Prof. Gray, we find In this volume but
single reference to our Civil War. and that
occurs after the termination ofThe struggle.
We hope that the reticence is not to be
explained by any lack Of sympathy with
the North on Churchs part. In November.
1895. he writes to DR.. Gray: Astonishing
a. the war was all through the most aston
ishinp part OF the whole has been the abrupt
ness with which II has ended and the rapidty
with which everything tended TO settle
down into peace. You have very difficult
questions before you. But, undoubtedly,
you have shown a power Of meeting the
great trials OF a nation that seems To me
new in history. l hope with all my heart
that as you have begun so you will go on.
Slavery Is destroyed. / cannot say that.
beforehand, should have said that this was
the way in which il had best be destroyed
But the thing Is done. and ! earnestly trust
that it's CONSEQUENCES may be controlled
In the right direction" The writer adds:
ANY one who has a conception of what
history means must feel, not only that the
revolution through which you have so
wonderfully passed. il without any parallel
in the story Of the world. but that the spec
tacle Of the reconst riction Of a nation is going
ON before us in even more astonishing form
than when Washington and Hamilton frs
laid the foundations Of the Union. ! only
wish | had leisure, knowledge and oppor-
tunities TO enable me to follow and under-
stand what feel is the most marvellous
political phenomenon Of the times ! have
lived in"
In a letter Addressed 20 DR. Gray In Janu-
sry. 1865. we find an interesting sllusion
TO a distinguished Englishman who was to
become connected with Cornell University:
.Perhaps you have heard that you are
likely 10 have Goodwin Smith 10 settle,
il is supposed permanently among you.
He had terrible blow In his fathers death
Perhaps that has contributed To make
H. gland distasteful 10 him think bee
has given u up too soon. 30 much nobl"-
and w. can hardly spar" him but ] think
tha, he has laiterly b""n carried away
by estr.ma-, both of indignation and -yu-
pathy. though must say that such p"ilti-
oa year a. last y.aI s som" eAo,iS" fof any
man
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