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1 84 LIFE OF ARCHBISHOP TAIT [CH. vn.
" DEAR
The Dean of Carlisle to Mr. W. Browne.
MR. BROWNE, Your letter
"
26th Jan. 1852.
has been forwarded to
me. In the statement of objects of the Protestant Alliance
are some with which I certainly cannot sympathise. I have
always been decidedly in favour of the Maynooth Grant, and
should consider its withdrawal, except on the ground of proved
abuse, to be unjust. I do not see how one holding this opinion
could co-operate in such an Association as you say it is intended
to form. Generally, also, my opinion, as far as I am yet informed,
is strong that Popery in this country is better met by every
Protestant clergyman and layman zealously doing his duty in the
position God has assigned him than by the agitation which seems
implied in the formation of a Society for the defence of Protes
tantism. If Government could be strengthened so as to enable
them to interfere on behalf of Protestants abroad, this were
indeed much to be desired. Yours sincerely,
"A. C. TAIT."
Similarly, in reply to a request that he would allow
his name to be added to a widely supported Sabbath
Observance Society, he writes as follows :
The Dean of Carlisle to Mr. J. Simpson.
" MY DEAR SIR, I
"
1 2/7; March 1853.
have attentively perused the Rules of the
Sabbath Observance Society. I do not feel that I can join it.
I think I shall better promote the great object of urging men to
the observance, not only of the Fourth Commandment, but of
all God s commandments, the rules of a Christian life, through
the regularly appointed agency of Christ s Church, than by means
of this Society. The Church of Christ Universal, represented for
that branch of it to which he
each individual Christian by
himself belongs, appears to me to open up for each, in its regular
ministrations, the best means through which he may, by God s
help, promote such great objects. Yours very faithfully,
"A. C. TAIT."
The following is Lady Wake s account of a visit to
Carlisle, in the last year of the Dean s residence there :-