He will sacrifice nothing in this respect.

His whole mind, which is a very different thing from his whole spirit, leans towards authority, order, and coherence.

He must have an organised society of believers, believers in the creeds, and he must have an absolute obedience to authority among these believers.
But he is a little shaken and very much alarmed by the march of modernism.

"When people run up to you in the street," he said recently, and the phrase suggests panic, "and say, 'Oh! what are we to do ?' I have got no short or easy answer at all." A large, important, and learned body of men in the Church, he says, hold views which are "directly subversive of the foundations of the creeds." He calls this state of things evidence of "an extraordinary collapse of discipline." But that is not all.

He is alarmed; he is not content to trust the future of the Church to authority alone.