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.866-68] RESULTS TO THE COLONIAL CHURCH 397
he desired to postpone the change as long as possible,
in order that these young Churches might have time to
settle themselves firmly upon the lines of English law
before they should be called upon to stand alone. He
had made it clear from the first that he had no sympathy
with Bishop Colenso s opinions, and that his resistance to
what he deemed the perilous highhandedness of Bishop
Gray was no isolated act of merely personal or local
significance. It was part of a definite and well-con
sidered policy. The ecclesiastical despotism which he
dreaded and opposed might take one form in South
Africa, and some other form, not less mischievous, else
where ; and it was his deliberate opinion in later years
that the restraints successfully imposed by himself and
others upon the impetuous Metropolitan of Capetown
had had a wholesome and reassuring effect upon Colonial
Churchmanship in every quarter of the globe.