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248 LIFE OF ARCHBISHOP TAIT [CH. x.
corned in the controversy, 1 and whatever its disadvantages,
it resulted in the speedy restoration of peace. After a few
months a memorial was presented to the Bishop, signed
by 2176 of the parishioners, including churchwardens,
overseers, trustees, guardians, vestrymen, and, it is said,
every resident member of the legal and medical profes
sion, with one exception.
" We
desire," they said,
convey to your lordship our deep sense of the obligation
we are under for the restoration of peace to this long
distracted parish, through^your lordship s instrumentality."
In the following year Mr. Bryan King was appointed to
a country parish in the diocese of Salisbury. He left
behind him in the mission districts of St. George s parish
devoted men who maintained in a more excellent way,
and with an earnestness equal to his own, the principles
for which he had perseveringly contended, and Mr. Lowder
and Mr. Mackonochie, before many years had passed,
found themselves loved and reverenced in their daily
work by those who had once been eager to
"
"
to
throw them
over the Dock head."
One other point is perhaps worth noticing. The
curious misuse of the name of Dr. Pusey in connection
with such controversies has seldom been better illustrated
than in the riots of St. George s in the East. Down with
the ! Puseyites seems to have been the usual war-cry of
the mob, and the Society which promoted the agitation
was the Anti-Puseyite League. It so happened that
the Bishop of London was at that time in correspondence
with Dr. Pusey in connection with the evening sermons in
1 A well-known High Churchman, who as Eye-witness had,
in a
series of letters to the Guardian^ described the scenes all through the riots,
advised, in his last letter, that the points at issue should be conceded.
"
It
is worse than useless," he said,
"
to insist, for the sake of so small a differ
ence, on the maintenance of a service of which the only result is such frightful
desecration."