xxxiv MEMOIRS. 



suggested as a successor to Dr. Hatch in the 

 Readership of Ecclesiastical History. As a con- 

 troversialist he was a keen lover of the fray lynx- 

 eyed to detect weakness in an opponent's position, 

 trenchant and inexorable in logic, full charged 

 with epigrammatic defiance, yet scrupulously just 

 and with a ready recognition of the difficulties 

 which others might feel in accepting his own 

 position. Many of those whom he criticized 

 most severely recognized this ; e.g. Mr. Cotter 

 Morison expressed his gratitude for, and his high 

 estimate of, his review of the " Service of Man." As 

 a preacher his sermons often contained a thorough 

 sifting of some theological problem, yet, with the 

 instinct of one who had been a parish priest, there 

 flashed out from time to time some piercing 

 spiritual appeal, " quick to discern the thoughts 

 and intents of the heart," and uttered with a clear 

 solemnity of tone which rings in the ears still. 



For behind all the many-sided work, as the 

 determining motive of it all, there lay the deepest 

 sense of intellectual responsibility, and the convic- 

 tion expressed so excellently in his last University 

 sermon, that " truth always and everywhere is a 

 sacred trust from God for the service of man." 

 The belief in Christ and His Church was his by 

 inheritance, but he had accepted it with his full- 

 grown mind, at a time when all such acceptance 

 had to be won through the stress of conflict, be- 



