More than twenty years elapsed before the tests which condemned him were abolished, and in that time there must have been many less orthodox Fellows than he.

It was more than twenty years before he could lay aside the orders which in a rash moment under an evil system he had assumed.

But he was a preacher, though a lay one, and his life was a struggle for the causes in which he believed.

Ecclesiastical controversies never really interested him, except so far as they touched upon national life and character.

He wished to see the work, of the sixteenth century continued in the nineteenth by the naval power and the Colonial possessions of England.