Mrs.Cleaver was worthy of her husband.

They were both models of practical Christianity.

They and their circle held all the opinions about Catholicism and the Reformation which Newman and the Anglo-Catholics denounced.

The real thing was always among them, and they did not want any imitation.

"A clergyman," says Froude, "who was afterwards a Bishop in the Irish Church, declared in my hearing that the theory of a Christian priesthood was a fiction; that the notion of the Sacraments as having a mechanical efficacy irrespective of their conscious effect upon the mind of the receiver was an idolatrous superstition; that the Church was a human institution, which had varied in form in different ages, and might vary again; that it was always fallible; that it might have Bishops in England, and dispense with Bishops in Scotland and Germany; that a Bishop was merely an officer; that the apostolical succession was probably false as a fact--and, if a fact, implied nothing but historical continuity.