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CHAPTER XVIII.
THE LONDON EPISCOPATE (continued}.
MEMORANDA AM.) CORRESPONDENCE FATHER IGNATIUS REV. F.
D. MAURICE THE SPEAKER S COMMENTARY ARCHDEACON
WORDSWORTH RELIGIOUS, EDUCATION PURCHASE OF STONE-
HOUSE OFFER OF THE PRIMACY.
1863-1867.
IT was the Bishop s occasional habit, as has been already
said, to jot down in a disjointed form usually when he
was on a holiday a few sheets of memoranda about the
general progress of whatever work he had in hand. Such
memoranda are the following, which, with four years in
terval between them, show how the work described in the
foregoing Chapters presented
itself to his own view :
"
LLANFAIRFECHAN, Sfpt. 12, 1863.- -These times of rest
are indispensable for enabling me to see on calm reflection what
is necessary for my Episcopal
work. This week will see the
close of seven years since Lord Palmerston s letter arrived at
Hallsteads offering me the Bishopric of London. And really it
has taken pretty nearly those seven years to get fairly into the
whole work of this complicated Diocese. I therefore can have
no regret that it was not interrupted by my going to York. Now,
if God spares my life a little longer, I may hope to see schemes
matured, and by God s grace bearing fruit. My main object has
been to endeavour so to present the Church of England, as that,
fully maintaining the truth of Christ, it shall become more and
more rooted in the affections of the people. For this purpose my
attention has been specially directed to those who seemed in
danger of being alienated from the Church: (i.) The middle
class, whom the High Church development seemed fast alienat-
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