CHAPTER V.
BISHOP HENSLEY HENSON _He early attained a high development, but he has not increased it since; years have come, but they have whispered little; as was said of the second Pitt, "He never grew, he was cast_."-- WALTER BAGEHOT.
Rumour has it that Dr.Henson is beginning to draw in his horns.

Every curate who finds himself unable to believe in the Virgin Birth, so it said, feels himself entitled to a living in the diocese of Durham.

They flee from the intolerant zealotry of the sacerdotal south to the genial modernism of the latitudinarian north.
But the trouble is, so rumour has it, these intelligent curates prove themselves but indifferent parish priests.

Dr.Henson has to complain.
The work of the Church must be carried on.

Evangelicalism seems a better driving force than theology.