MEMOIRS. 



lay alongside of this : " We want which of us 

 does not? more light on the weary problems 

 which beat and baffle us, and hinder our Christian 

 life." Or in his latest University sermon after 

 pointing out that the sense of stewardship, that 

 is, of ministering what one has received is the true 

 temper alike of priest, philosopher, and scientific 

 investigator, he goes on : 



" It is in this sense of mission and ministry that we find 

 the strength to struggle on through doubt and difficulty and 

 almost despair, in the search for truth." 



Such words have all the pathos and passion of the 

 spirit of quest, and show that the steady believer 

 had borne his share of the burthen of "this 

 unintelligible world," and could feel with those 

 whom it oppressed. But to such evidence of his 

 temper we may add the more definite witness of 

 his thought. It was the complement (but to him 

 the consequence) of dogmatism in the science of 

 God, that he should reverence all other teaching. 

 He speaks of 



"The willingness to put ourselves to school with those 

 who in whatever department of life have been in God's 

 purpose the channels by which hitherto He has taught the 

 world. To be teachable it is not necessary to be uncritical, 

 but if ever we are to become true critics we must begin by 

 readiness to learn." 



Such golden words show how entirely he realized 

 that the deductiveness of theology had for him no 

 sense of over-bearingness, and that he would as 



