its curates, with perhaps the single exception of Dean
Stanley, has so wisely divined or so ably presented as he did the
modifications which must be made in the popular dispensation of religion
through the Church, if it is longer to expect a hearing, or even its
present show of tolerance, from those who share the average intelligence
of the age.

This man, who so nobly, and with a rare consistency of character and
life, fulfilled the office of a minister of the Prince of Peace, seems
all along to have had a heart divided by its first love for a military
life and service. Many readers will find a puzzling problem in
reconciling themselves to this fact, as it shows tokens all through his
career that the preference of his youth was also that of his experienced
manhood. His honored father still survives him as a Captain in the Royal
Artillery, retired from service. Three brothers in the military service
also survive the preacher. He was brought up, as he often writes, in
camps and barracks, and loved no sound as he did the boom of artillery.
It was a grievous cross to his cherished inclinations, when he was sent
by parental authority to the University. Being there, he had no
misgiving as to the choice left him for life. He gave himself heart and
soul to the ministry, and that, too, under views of doctrine and duty,
to be followed out in its discharge, amazingly unlike those to which the
free, expanding, and grandly independent growth of his own rare powers
finally led him. Would he have been the same heroic, conscientious, and
devout man as a soldier that he was as a minister? the reader will more
than once be prompted to ask over these pages. He would have been a
splendid example of heroism and chivalry in any cause which his
conscience could have espoused. But if military orders had constrained
his loyalty in behalf of some of the infamous predatory outrages which
English arms have of late years visited upon India and China, could a
man such as he was have retained his commission? His letters give
abundant proof that his ecclesiastical superiors had no prerogative sway
over his conscience. How could he have borne the constraints of
subordination in following a flag which recognizes no scruples of
distinctions between right and wrong when it rallies its champions?
However this might have been, certain it is that all the grand imagery
of the battle-field and the fight, of spear and breastplate, shield and
sword, of soldierl