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voice in future appointments. Cumbrous as the resolution was, Stanley accepted it as a pis aller, and it was
proposed in Convocation2, but not carried. A scheme
involving so many complications had little chance with
a body so ready to listen to objections. Dr. Pusey
sought to throw the burden of odium on those Liberals
who had voted against his measure, and remained
deaf to any further proposal.
Jowett not only possessed his soul in patience all this
while, but was ready to extend sympathy to others who
like himself were victims of the spirit of religious
intolerance which had gone abroad. I select one of
several letters which he wrote about this time to
Mr. Charles Voysey, whose theological views expressed in
sermons had brought him into trouble with ecclesiastical
superiors:'WHITBY, July 26, [i86I].
'I think I told you in one of my former letters that I had
little means of assisting others. But I will certainly do what
I can to help you. I am very glad that you went to Yarmouth
and proved what you could do in parish work. Would it
be possible to stay on till Christmas and so leave with as
little of "a scene" as possible? Supposing that an attempt
were made at any future time to get you a living from the
Bishop of London or the Chancellor, it would go much against
you that you had left a curacy for what they call " heterodoxy."
This is what Sydney Smith would have called "a dreary time
for clergymen of liberal opinions." But I believe that it will
clear and that we shall live to see much truer ideas prevailing of the nature of Christianity.
1 For Dr. Pusey's views on tion, because the motion took the
the Professoriate and on Crown form of a resolution to petition
appointments, see Life of E. B. Parliament.
Pusey, vol. iii. pp. 382-39i, and I With whom lies the responsihis pamphlet on Collegiate and bility of the approaching Conflict
Professoriate Teaching, 1854. as to the Greek Chair? by Pacificus,
2 Convocation, not Congrega- Nov. i86I.