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the reasonableness of the Christian Faith ; he had 

 never doubted the beauty, the moral worth, the 

 attraction of that faith. And with him it was what 

 Dante in his ' Paradiso ' puts into S. Bernard's 

 mouth : 



' A quella luce cotal si diventa, 



Che volgersi da lei per altro aspetto 

 E impossibil che mai si consenta.' 



And through all these years there was a constant 

 wiUingness to try to aid other people in their diffi- 

 culties, to remove stumbhng-blocks which hindered 

 others. He was always wilhng to discuss problems of 

 belief, always perfectly fair and candid, and there were 

 not a few who, since his death, have spoken of the 

 real help which he gave them. He did not drop re- 

 ligious observances; on Sunday in London he usually 

 went to Christ Church, Albany Street, of which the 

 present Bishop of St. Albans was then vicar, and for 

 some years at Geanies he had a short Evening Service 

 for guests and servants who could not drive ten miles 

 to church. 



This service, unless a clergyman happened to be 

 staying at Geanies, he conducted himself, and ended 

 it by reading a sermon. He had all his Presbyterian 

 ancestors' love for a good discourse, and serious efforts 

 had to be made to prevent him from reading too long 

 a sermon. 



Mozley's ' University Sermons ' he liked parti- 

 cularly, and when these were divided, they were 

 tolerated by his audience, who at first considered them 

 much too long. He also read many of Dean Church's 

 sermons. 



He first knew the Dean in 1883, and although he 

 only went very occasionally to the Deanery, he was 

 greatly impressed by the striking personality of the 

 great divine and scholar, whom to know was to love. 

 The Dean's beautiful style, his great learning, his Intel- 



