Great measures of State I hope you will be able to avoid at first.

I have already--if you would read it over, and perhaps let Stockmar see it--written to you some months ago on the subject of the necessity of maintaining the influence of conservative principles, and of protecting the Church.
You will do well to keep both objects in view.

You will do wisely by showing yourself attached to the English Protestant Church as it exists in the State; you are particularly where you are, because you are a Protestant.

I know you are averse to persecution, and you are right; miss, however, _no opportunity_ to show your sincere feeling for the existing Church; it is _right_ and _meet_ that you should do so.

I must repeat that you will do well as long as it will be possible to hurt no one's hopes or prospects.