If Daubeny does carry the party with him, I suppose the days of the Church are numbered." "And what if they be ?" Mr.Gresham almost sighed as he said this, although he intended to express a certain amount of satisfaction.
"What if they be?
You know, and I know, that the thing has to be done.

Whatever may be our own individual feelings, or even our present judgment on the subject,--as to which neither of us can perhaps say that his mind is not so made up that it may not soon be altered,--we know that the present union cannot remain.

It is unfitted for that condition of humanity to which we are coming, and if so, the change must be for good.

Why should not he do it as well as another?
Or rather would not he do it better than another, if he can do it with less of animosity than we should rouse against us?
If the blow would come softer from his hands than from ours, with less of a feeling of injury to those who dearly love the Church, should we not be glad that he should undertake the task ?" "Then you will not oppose him ?" "Ah;--there is much to be considered before we can say that.

Though he may not be bound by his friends, we may be bound by ours.