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1856] LORD SHAFTESBURY S ALARM 209
bury s fears with regard to Arthur Stanley s appointment as my
examining chaplain. I am sure, however, that he will soon be
convinced that they are groundless.
I have known Stanley now
for twenty years and more, and that very intimately. He is a
man against whom efforts have at times been made to excite
prejudice, but you know as well as I do how admirable is the
Christian simplicity of his character. As to what was said in
the Record of his being inclined to unite ritualism with latitu-
dinarianism, it is to any one who knows him simply ridiculous,
and about as correct as the absurd unfounded statement in the
same paper, that he is the head of St. Augustine s College in
Canterbury, in which he holds no office whatever.
" That he will be invaluable in testing the literary qualification
of the candidates, no one of those who most differ from him will
doubt, and those who have a distrust of him otherwise still
know that the examinations will, of course, always be conducted
under my own eye, if God gives me strength. I am sure Lord
Shaftesbury, and those who think with him, will have no reason
to regret Stanley s appointment, and the whole list of my five
chaplains, as it shows my own real leanings, will, I trust and
believe, very generally approve itself to earnestly religious men
throughout the country. I am, with much love, yours affec
tionately,
A. C. LONDON."
The Earl of Shaftesbury to Lady Wake.
^December i, 1856.
"My DEAR LADY WAKE, It is all quite right. I have no
more apprehensions. I met your brother, the Bishop, who
treated me with the greatest kindness, smoothed away my fears,
and showed no displeasure that I had presumed to interfere.
"
I attended his first sermon yesterday, and was much grati
fied. I had not expected to hear the second and personal
advent of our blessed Lord preached by the Metropolitan Bishop
in the pulpit of St. James s. May God give him grace and
strength, and abundant success in his spiritual warfare ! Yours
sincerely, SHAFTESBURY.
P-S- A short conversation with himself has produced this
reassuring conviction."
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