MEMOIRS. 



but attracted him, though the delightful humorous 

 smile as he quoted from them showed how well he 

 knew what everybody knows about " scholastic " 

 limitations. The title of his book, "Science and 

 the Faith," implies at once all that is being here 

 said. "Faith" would have been to him a very 

 different matter. He was a Churchman to the 

 backbone, and he never thought to make things 

 better by abating, even when unpopular, its 

 distinctive language ; 



" The belief in revelation carries with it a belief in dogma, 

 and every true dogma of Christ's holy Church embodies a 

 revelation, a truth about God which, if realized in our life, is 

 a truth which sets us free." 



To separate doctrine from practice is as though 

 we should "fling aside that body of truth which 

 years of scientific research have won from nature, 

 and start afresh in the conflict." "Dogma is not 

 an end in itself, but a necessary means to a good 

 end, the holding fast the sacred deposit of revealed 

 truth." This was to him normal and natural 

 language, and this is the language of a thoroughly 

 and freely dogmatic mind. It was entirely in 

 accord with this that loyalty made him write a 

 firm and explicit refusal to take part in the open- 

 ing ceremonies of a Nonconformist college, and 

 protest against our taking up Luther and Zwingli 

 commemorations. 



But then look at the language which we have to 



