He is one of those solid and outstanding men whose decisions affect a multitude, a man to whom many look with a confidence which he himself, perhaps, may never experience.
He cannot, I think, be wholly unaware of this consideration in forming his judgments, and I attribute, rather to a keen and weighty sense of great responsibility than to any lack of vital courage, his increasing tendency towards the Catholic position.

One begins to think that he is likely to disappoint many of those who once regarded him as the future statesman of a Christianity somewhat less embarrassed by institutionalism.
It is probable, one fears, that he may conclude at Lambeth a career in theology comparable with that of Mr.Winston Churchill in politics.

Born in the ecclesiastical purple he may return to it, bringing with him only the sheaves of an already mouldering orthodoxy.
On one ground, however, there is hope that he may yet shine in our uneasy gloom with something more effective than the glow of phosphorescence.

He is devoted heart and soul to Labour.

Events, then, may drive him out of his present course, and urge him towards a future of signal usefulness; for Labour is a force which waits upon contingency, and moves as the wind moves--now softly, then harshly, now gently, then with great violence.