46 SIR WILLIAM FLOWER CHAP. 



the scientific discoveries of the day, were of the kind 

 which Flower appreciated in a Churchman who was 

 also a man of science, and his death was subject for 

 sincere regret. 



Nor did Flower confine himself to lamenting the 

 loss of a friend endeared to him alike by judgment 

 and personal regard. No one of the writers in 

 Essays and Reviews had been more consistently 

 misrepresented than Baden Powell. His dislike 

 of violence in speech or print did not let him 

 follow the example of the critics by an equally 

 violent defence. But when an eminent Churchman 

 allowed himself to say that Mr. Baden Powell had 

 died " without any ministrations of religion," Flower, 

 who was with him for the last three days and nights 

 of his life, just as later he spent the last of Dean 

 Stanley's nights on earth by his bedside, wrote to 

 say that "as long as he was able Mr. Baden Powell 

 regularly attended divine service at St. Andrew's, 

 Wells Street, and received the Holy Communion, 

 and read the Liturgy of the Church of England 

 with his family." Flower stated that " never did 

 one single expression escape him that did not tell 

 of peace, of resignation to God's will, and of faith in 

 the religion in which he had been brought up, in 

 which he had always lived, and in which he was 

 then dying." He also wrote a short obituary notice 

 of him which throws a light on Flower's own 

 attitude at a time when many less clear heads 

 were so seriously affected by the new discoveries 



