We all see that, except our dear friend here, the milk of whose nature runs so softly that he would not have the heart to refuse the Pope the loan of his pulpit, if the Pope would come and ask it.

We must not, however, allow the man to preach again here.
It is not because his opinion on church matters may be different from ours--with that one would not quarrel.

It is because he has purposely insulted us.

When he went up into that pulpit last Sunday, his studied object was to give offence to men who had grown old in reverence of those things of which he dared to speak so slightingly.
What! To come here a stranger, a young, unknown, and unfriended stranger, and tell us, in the name of the bishop his master, that we are ignorant of our duties, old-fashioned, and useless! I don't know whether most to admire his courage or his impudence! And one thing I will tell you: that sermon originated solely with the man himself.
The bishop was no more a party to it than was the dean here.

You all know how grieved I am to see a bishop in this diocese holding the latitudinarian ideas by which Dr.Proudie has made himself conspicuous.