Perhaps the greatest compliment in this respect paid him
was the appointing him University preacher at his own university--that of
Cambridge--a few years since. To have occupied that pulpit is a
memorable event in any clergyman's life.

Little more need be said. Mr. Calthrop was born in London, and educated
at Trinity College, Cambridge. He at one time had thoughts of studying
for the law, but ultimately the pulpit became the object of his choice.
As a curate he originally laboured at Reading; he moved thence to
Brighton, where he was curate to the late Rev. Mr. Elliott, author of a
work still known in theological circles--the "Horae Apocalypticae." Six
years of his ministerial life were spent at Cheltenham, and thence he
removed with his wife and family to what was then a new and untried
sphere of labour. The wealth and material prosperity around him seem not
to have impaired his devotedness. Very possibly they have opened to him
fresh fields of usefulness; for if ever plain preaching was required for
rich men, it is in the day in which we live. It is to the credit of Mr.
Calthrop that he realizes this fact, and sees in the Gospel he proclaims
a message for the richest of the rich as well as for the poorest of the
poor.

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A book might be written about Church Life. I can only say Dr. Temple
tells us, that such commands as those in Leviticus as to tattooing,
disfiguring the person, or wearing a blue fringe, should be sanctioned by
divine authority, is utterly irreconcileable with our present feelings.
The Bible is before all things the written voice of the congregation,
writes Dr. Rowland Williams. The Pentateuch was not written by Moses.
The Psalms do not bear witness to the Messiah. The prophecies are
histories. Justification means peace of mind, or sense of the Divine
approval. Regeneration is an awakening of the forces of the soul.
Reason is the fulfilment of the love of God. The kingdom of God is the
revelation of Divine Will in our thoughts and lives. The incarnation is
purely spiritual. In London pulpits the preacher best known and most
identified with Broad Church theology is Professor Jowett, whose great
theme is that eternal punishment is inconsistent with all that we can
conceive of the requirements of justice or the character of God. Dean
Stanley says no clergyman believes the Athanasian Creed, and treats many
parts of the Bible as mythical. Of Fath