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Mr. Carey then went on to describe at some length the misery 

 of the city working-classes in Kingsley's day — their oppression by 

 the faithless shop-keepers, their " sweatings " under tlae Labour- 

 Kings, their moderate Charter, their not-unmerited distrust of 

 the Church and their desperate infidelity. This was the drift of 

 Kingsley's message, as also of Maurice's, and of their allies. 



I am a clergyman, and therefore I want to feel my brother- 

 hood with the working-classes, and to live for them completely, 

 for their social and political freedom. But will the Charter make 

 them free — from revenge, covetousness, and drunkenness ? Is 

 it licence or liberty that is sought for ? Is it equality of wealth 

 or equality of worth ? Is it the selfish equality of Communism 

 or the unselfishness of Christianity ? Is it a larger income for 

 one's self or a better chance of using one's gifts and talents for 

 the good and joy of all? Do men want to live on one another 

 or /or one another? But why should the Chartists be infidels, 

 as if the Incarnation was not the great seal of our Brotherhood, 

 as if the Bible was not the poor man's comfort, the rich man's 

 warning, and the reformer's guide ? To live the life of brothers, 

 we must know we have one Father, who can only mend society 

 on condition that each man mend himself. Association, Co- 

 operation, then — these must be the new Christian watch woi'ds 

 instead of selfish competition. This is the whole heart of "Alton 

 Locke " — than which is no grander history of Chartism. 



In the latter part of his paper Mr. Carey referred to the work 

 which Kingsley loved most, viz : sanitary reform. He no more 

 dared to turn away from a bit of such work than from knocking 

 down a murderer, whom he saw killing a woman. He called 

 the sanitaxy reformer in "Yeast," "the only true soldier, who 

 conquers those real devils and natural enemies of Englishmen, 

 carbonic acid and sulphuretted hydrogen." He went to London 

 to see for himself and to make the whole country see the con- 

 dition of the drains and wells of Bermondsey. Day and night 

 he worked to make men see and feel " the mass of suffering and 

 agony of mind and body in England," and to persuade men that 

 it was possible to stop at least three-fourths of it. 



In taking a peep into Kingsley's beautiful home, Mr. Carey 

 said that there everything was referred to God. The servants 

 were not slaves, but were treated more like the servants in the 

 days of the Patriarchs. All of them had lived there from 17 to 

 26 years, when the master died. He himself seemed when at 

 home, to be in every part of the house, not bustling, but sweetly 

 ordering and encouraging. There was for some years either a 

 curate or a pupil and the four happy children — two girls and two 

 boys. For these children there was built the hut nursery in 

 "the highest and loveliest pomt of the moorland glebe," where 

 the nightingales nested. There were books specially written for 



