CHAPTER VI

LAST YEARS AT PERTH

1868-1876

'Through evil report and through good report.'

'The gracious Providence of Almighty God hath I trust put these thorns of

contradiction in our sides, lest that should steal upon the Church in a slumber,

which now I doubt not but through His assistance may be turned away from us,

binding ourselves thereto with constancy; constancy in labour to do all men

good, constancy in prayer to God for all men.'-R. HOOKER, last page of Dedica-

tion of Book v. of his Treatise Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity.

Proposal to consecrate Bishop Macrorie in Scotland

Proposal to revive Archiepiscopal titles

Irish disestablishment

Letter from Bishop Claughton.

Biography in 'Scotichronicon'

Important conference of Clergy and Laity at Perth (1868)

Its Influence on Episcopal Synod (1869)

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Correspondence with R. Palmer on Establishment.

Christopher Wordsworth becomes Bishop of Lincoln

Bishop Hamilton's death (1869). Depressing period

Troubles among the Bishops

Renewed disputes at S. Ninian's. Mr. Burton Provost (1871-1885)

Perth Nunnery. Ritual Charge of 1872

The Bishop gives notice of intended resignation (1874) .

Resignation suspended.

Deaths of Bishops Ewing (1873) and Forbes (1875)

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Of Rev. W. G. Shaw of Forfar (1874)

General Synod of 1876. Glenalmond Students. Cumbrae

Sermons in England, especially in English cathedrals

Work of New Testament Revision (1870-1881)

'Final Suggestions' on the four Gospels

Dr. Field's Otium Norvicense'

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Supplemented by Remarks on Dr. Lightfoot's Essay' (1879)

Stanley's Sermon on the Burning Bush'

Review of Lord Bute's Breviary'

CHAPTER VII

RESIDENCE AT ST. ANDREWS AND LAST EFFORTS AT REUNION

1876-1892

'He who would win the name of truly great

Must understand his own age and the next,

And make the present ready to fulfil

Its prophecy, and with the future merge

Gently and peacefully, as wave with wave.'

From J. R. LOWELL, A Glance behind the Curtain.

Reasons for the Bishop's removal to St. Andrews

Influence on him of the learned society there.

Retrospect. The Church Service Society,' founded in 1867

Its influence on Presbyterian worship

The Bishop renews his efforts

Sermon at the consecration of Edinburgh Cathedral (1879)

221

Correspondence with Dr. Milligan (1880).

225

Prospects of Reconciliation' (1882) drawn out by Milligan's

Invitations to preach in College Church and Parish Church,

Description of a University sermon at St. Andrews by the poet

Robert F. Murray.

Important article on Union or Separation' (May 1884)

Its influence on the position of the Bishop at the Seabury Com-

memoration

Address prepared by him for that event .

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Article on Archbishop Hamilton's Catechism' (January 1885)

Death of Bishop Christopher Wordsworth (March 1885)

Relation of the brothers

'The Case of Non-Episcopal Ordination fairly considered' (3 Sep-

tember, 1885)

'Public Appeals' (2 vols.) published 1886

Suggestion that Presbyterian Orders, though irregular, may be valid 242

Address at Aberdeen University (February 1886)

Invitation to lecture at St. Cuthbert's, Edinburgh

Changes in the Episcopate

Bishop Dowden consecrated and Bishop Jermyn elected Primus

(21 September, 1886)

Charge on Book of Common Prayer. Jenny Geddes .

Bishop Dowden, with his Chapter, objects to St. Cuthbert's lecture 247

The Yoke of Christ to be borne in Youth' published (1887)

Letters from Presbyterians and others

Wide proposals of the Committee of the Lambeth Conference (July

Invitation to preach before University of Edinburgh, A Three-

fold Rule of Christian Duty'

259

The author's own judgment

260

Discussion of Principle, Precedent and Expediency.

These indicate weak points in the Bishop's scheme

Healthy influence of Supernumeraries,' Revs. S. B. Hodgson

and G. T. Farquhar .

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Bishop uses Cathedral again (1882) and onwards

Death of Provost Burton and appointment of Provost V. L.

Rorison. Lord Glasgow's failure: a blessing in disguise

New life of Cathedral (1886-1890)

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General Synod (1890). Cordial relations with his colleagues

The Provost made Dean and Rev. A. S. Aglen Archdeacon

Charge describing work of General Synod (1890)

267

Analogy from reaction against Wolfian theory of Homeric poems 272

Present of a chair and pastoral staff (April 1892).

273

Final words on Reunion. Foundation of 'Scottish Church Society' 277

Last illness and death (5 December, 1892)

278

Burial in Cathedral Yard and Epitaph

279

Summary of the Bishop's public services by Dr. Danson and

His belief in the reality of the movement among leading Presby-

terians.

'Inveni portum! Spes et Fortuna valete!

Sat me lusistis: ludite nunc alios.'

'Immo alii inveniant ego quem, Christo auspice, portum,

Spes ubi non fallax, Forsque perennis adest.'

1. Latin verses: partnership with Dean Stanley

Motto of this chapter: its history

287

Stanley's version of these and other lines by Charles Wordsworth 287

Lines addressed to Dean Ramsay (1872)

Lines to Lord Beaconsfield on his return from Berlin Congress

(1878)

'Pindar and Athletics, Ancient and Modern' (1888)

310

Extract from Canon Farquhar's Diary: The Bishop's orderliness 318

Mr. Gladstone: note to Sir J. E. Eardley-Wilmot

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5. Last publications in verse and prose executed and projected