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I feel sure that all loyal churchmen, on whatever side they may 

 be, will feel a just indignation at the conduct of a paper they have 

 trusted to, as a so-called " Guardian," to be depended on in such 

 a matter as this. 



For myself, so far as mere names go, I am not, never was, and 

 never will be, either a Low or a High Churchman ; unless, indeed, 

 I am both. If to take my stand on the one great and main 

 doctrine, which alone gives all others their importance, is to be a 

 Low Churchman, then I am such in the very deepest depth. If to 

 desire to see all things done reverently," decently and in order," 

 " according to due order " in the Church, is to be a High Church- 

 man, then 1 1 acknowledge myself to be a High Churchman, and a 

 very high one. 



It is always painful to me to see any common book laid on the 

 Bible ; but I would make one exception in favour of the Prayer 

 Book, only as denoting that it rests solely on the authority of the 

 Book of Books, namely, on the great Truth of Truths it contains, 

 as the " Church's One Foundation." On the Bible and the Prayer 

 Book, but in no " metaphorical sense," I take my stand that is 

 my Churchmanship. 



In one of Miss Edgeworth's Tales she describes the " ineffable 

 contempt and indignation " with which Sir Plantagenet Mowbray 

 received the proposition of Marvel, the Lincolnshire farmer, to 

 purchase his Heronry near Spalding. 



" Ineffable contempt and indignation " is the only feeling which 

 any person of common sense and of a right mind must feel at the 

 astounding puerilities of Darwinism, its ten thousand times worse 

 than childish absurdities ; contempt for them in themselves, and 

 indignation at the criminal injury the miserable Infidelity of the 

 wretched system has done to the minds of too many. If the whole 

 of the English language could be condensed into one word, it would 

 not suffice to express the utter contempt those invite who are so> 

 deluded as to be disciples of such an imposture as Darwinism. 

 That this is not speaking too strongly, let one instance suffice. 



It has be. n Bravely propounded to us that a bit of moss, adhering 

 unsinged to a red-hot thunderbolt shattered off from some wrecked 

 world in the illimitable realms of space, fell, millions upon millions 



