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1863-68] CORKKSPONDKXCK WITH MR. MAI" RICK 5.3
have been to sec him to-day, but I find (and all his family and
his friends say) that, in spite of all their arguments, his decision
is irrevocable. The condemnation of his view of the Atonement,
and the judgment on Heath in the Privy Council was the first
cause of his uneasiness. The condemnation of Wilson s hope
of a final restoration by Dr. Lushington was the second. And a
taunt from Golenso gave the finishing stroke. His notion is that,
like St. Paul (the comparison is mine, not his) he will be able to
preach the Gospel better if not suspected of worldly motives.
He felt very much the kindness of your letter. You ask what
more you can do. Nothing, it seems to me, except this -which,
if you can do, would be of great importance, both as a support to
him, and as preventing the disastrous consequences which are
likely to flow from his step, viz., to allow him, or to take means
yourself, to publish your letter. This may, indeed, be rendered
impossible by the necessity of observing a dead silence on all
that relates to the questions which may be coming before the
Privy Council. But for this objection (of the force of which I
cannot judge) I see no harm and much good that would ensue
from its publication. Yours affectionately,
" MY
"A. P. STANLEY."
The Bis/top of London to the Rev. F. D. Maurice.
"
CROMER, October 24, 1862.
DEAR MR. MAURICE, Since I wrote to you on receiv
ing the first intimation of your intention to resign St. Peter s,
Vere Street, I have thought often of the subject. It has not
been till to-day that what had at first escaped my attention has
distinctly occurred to me, viz., that (unless your position in your
chapel is different from what I suppose it to be), if your purpose
is to be carried into effect, I must legally be more a party to it
than I should wish to be, as the resignation cannot release you
without my accepting it. In intimating your intention to resign,
you expressed your hope that I would not hereafter consider you
unworthy of doing any ministerial work in my diocese to which
any brother clergyman might invite you. In answer, assuring
you that nothing is abated of that deep respect with which I
regard your Christian character, I added that, much as I should
myself differ from you in many statements, I am not aware of
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