THE BEST AND THE GOOD 



PUBLISHED IN THE "CHURCHMAN," MARCH 17, 1900 



AMONG the people to whom we are all under a 

 very real debt of obligation for the help they 

 give to those seeking for good government at Al 

 bany is Bishop Doane. All of us who at the State 

 capital have been painfully striving to wrest, often 

 from adverse conditions, the best results obtainable, 

 are strengthened and heartened in every way by the 

 active interest the bishop takes in every good cause, 

 the keen intelligence with which he sees "the instant 

 need of things, " and the sane and wholesome spirit, 

 as remote from fanaticism as from cynicism, in 

 which he approaches all public questions. 



Quite unconsciously the bishop the other day gave 

 an admirable summing up of his own attitude in 

 quoting an extract from the "Life" of Archbishop 

 Benson. In a letter which the archbishop wrote to 

 his chancellor in regard to a bill regulating patronage 

 in the Church of England occurs the following pas 

 sage: 



"The bill does not, of course, represent my ideal, 

 but it is a careful collection of points which could be 



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