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434 LIFE OF ARCHBISHOP TAIT [CH. xv.
"
It deeply pains me to be obliged to write thus, but I should
otherwise neglect a plain duty. Believe me to be, dear Mr.
Mackonochie, yours faithfully,
A. C. LONDON."
The Rev. A. H. Mackonochie to tJie Bis] top of London.
" MY
"S.
ALBAN S CLERGY HOUSK,
November $. 1868.
DEAR LORD BISHOP, I have to thank your Lordship
very sincerely for the great kindness of your letter. I hope
I am not doing wrong in saying that it is but one more of
those many acts of friendliness on the part of your Lordship
which make it personally so very grievous to me that I should be
paining you by acting under the supreme obligation of obeying
my own fullest and most carefully formed convictions as to the
teaching of the Church of England, of the whole Church Catholic,
and, above all, of the Gospel of Christ. I do not presume to
obtrude upon your Lordship the reasons of my conviction. They
have been so often urged most ably in various quarters, that for me
but I venture to think
to reiterate them would be very unseemly ;
that your Lordship is one of the last men in England to wish me
to act contrary to my convictions, or to withhold any part of
that which I conceive to be the Gospel of Christ from those
whom I have to teach. I cannot be ignorant that the full asser
tion of that which I am convinced is the truth may lead me into
serious inconveniences, but I hope that the same God who has
revealed it will, by His grace, carry me through any difficulties
which He may suffer to come in my way. Believe me, my dear
Lord Bishop, yours very truly and respectfully,
"ALEX. HERIOT MACKONOCHIE."
In the meantime the Church Association had appealed
to the Privy Council against the recent judgment of the
Faith and Love, and give eternal rest to the faithful departed, through JESUS
CHRIST. Amen.
"
Q. Who do you mean by your ghostly Father
"
?
A. I mean by my Father"
"ghostly the priest who hears my confession. **
Q. Do you think that your Prayers help [the dead] ?
peace.
A. Yes ; I think they will get for them from GOD more grace and