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200 LIFE OF ARCHBISHOP TAIT [CH. ix.
You must have changed very much if any one ever gets anything
but kind and generous treatment at your hands."
From the Rugby Masters as a body he received a letter
of warmest congratulation and confident encouragement.
In his reply, he said :
" No
man could possibly undertake such a burden as must
devolve on the Bishop of London without a sense of his insuf
ficiency, and there are many reasons why I, in undertaking it,
must feel almost overwhelmed. It does therefore greatly tend
to strengthen me when I learn that those who have known me
long, and are kindly interested in my personal welfare, at the
same time that they are anxious to see the Church of Christ
fulfil its great vocation, are thus ready to bid me God-speed."
One after another among
his oldest friends refers to
the memories of Betty Morton, and to the joy which his
appointment would have given her. His brother James,
for example, writes :-
"
I have been : hourly thinking What would my dear Father
and Betty have said? John Russell, in congratulating me
old nurse was still alive : Horner,
yesterday, asked if and your
in a letter to-day from Berlin, says What would Betty have
thought ?
"
On grounds public rather than personal Dr. Hook of
Leeds wrote :
"
I should not offer my congratulations, if I did not believe
that your appointment meets with the approbation of the Church
of England generally. I have heard but one opinion expressed
on the subject, and that is, of great thankfulness. ... I
believe the thankfulness at your appointment to arise from the
conviction that you are a just man. The virtue which we require
in a Bishop, in these days of party violence, is justice : we re
quire a just and impartial Ruler, and as you have never been a
partisan, and are known to possess all the other qualifications of
a good Bishop, such we expect you to be."