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The father was also much affected by this kindness 

 shown to his son. Mr. Tayler had said nothing to 

 make him anxious until the crisis of the illness was 

 past. But when he knows all, there is something 

 more than eloquence in his brief, inarticulate phrases 

 of recognition : 



" With yours I have Mr. Tayler's letter. I do not write 

 to him to-day. My only subject is thanks, and these are 

 not to be measured in words the strongest I can use; so 

 at present give my respects and highest regards." 



Though weakened by his illness, Maxwell was able 

 to keep the vacation term, and profit by Hopkins' 

 continued training, before going home for a few weeks 

 of thorough refreshment. In the following term, with 

 the Senate-House examination in immediate prospect, 

 he was careful not to read inordinately hard. 



In the autumn of this year the controversy which 

 had been called forth by Professor Maurice's Theo- 



Bible, which, he knew by heart from a child, Presbyterian and Epis- 

 copalian influence had been blended as we have already seen. Hence, 

 when he went to Cambridge, there was nothing strange to him in the 

 service of the English Church. His mind was always moving (elk 

 2)lanait, as the French would say), above and " beyond these voices," 

 yet they were not indifferent to him. 



It is to be regretted that a letter on the Parties in the Church of 

 England, written to his father in 1852, has not been found. His 

 general approval of Hare's sermons, and his remarks on the Maurician 

 controversy, indicate the direction which his thoughts on this subject 

 must have taken. His interest in sermons, good and bad, was like 

 Macaulay's interest in novels, or Charles Lamb's in old plays. Years 

 after this, on board a friend's yacht one Sunday, he gave a sort of im- 

 promptu exposition of a chapter in the Book of Joshua, shouting up his 

 remarks from below, which struck those who heard it as full of origin- 

 ality and wisdom. 



