reat scholar, and no
popularity as an orator; he is loved simply for his devotion to Christ
and his sympathy with the sorrows of mankind. Yet that man, as no other
man had done before, brought the Presence of God into the hearts of that
little kneeling guild. It was as if, Miss Royden tells me, God was there
at the altar, shining upon them and blessing them. Never before had she
been more certain of God as a Person.

It is from experiences of this nature that she draws fresh power to make
men and women believe that the Christian religion is a true philosophy
of reality, and a true science of healing. She is, I mean, a mystic. But
she differs from a mystic like Dean Inge in this, that she is a mystic
impelled by human sympathy to use her mysticism as her sole evangel.

CANON E.W. BARNES

BARNES, Rev. ERNEST WILLIAM, M.A., Sc.D., F.R.S., F.R.A.S.; Canon
of Westminster since 1918; b. 1 April, 1874; e.s. of John Starkie
Barnes; m. 1916, Adelaide Caroline Theresa, o.d. of Sir Adolphus W.
Ward; two s. Educ.: King Edward's School, Birmingham; Trinity
College, Cambridge (Scholar). Bracketed 2d Wrangler, 1896;
President of the Union, 1897; First Class First Division of the
Mathematical Tripos, Part ii., 1897; first Smith's Prizeman, 1898;
Fellow of Trinity College, 1898-1916; M.A., 1900; Ordained, 1902;
Assistant Lecturer Trinity Coll., 1902; Junior Dean, 1906-8; Tutor,
1908-15; Master of the Temple, 1915-19; Examining Chaplain to
Bishop of Llandaff, 1906-20: a Governor of King Edward's School,
Birmingham, 1907; F.R.S., 1909; Select Preacher, Cambridge, 1906,
etc., and Oxford, 1914-16; Fellow of King's College, London, 1919.

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CHAPTER VII

CANON E.W. BARNES

_True religion takes up that place in the mind which superstition
would usurp, and so leaves little room for it; and likewise lays us
under the strongest obligations to oppose it.--BISHOP BUTLER.

Socrates looked up at him, and replied, Farewell: I will do as you
say. Then he turned to us and said, How courteous the man
is!--PLATO._

In this able and courageous Doctor of Science, who came to theology from
mathematics, a great virtue and a small fault combine to check his
intellectual usefulness. His heart is as full of modesty as his mind of
tentatives.

He is possessed by a gracious nature, and could no more think of ra