. Correspondence on church and religion of William Ewart Gladstone; . hout compromise ofprinciple of conscience, and none other. I would not wish to address a heartier audience thanthe young men of the Congregational College at Not-tingham, and on no point did they give me a warmerresponse than on what I said for denominational-ism. . 102. To the Moderator of the Free Kirk Assernbly. London, May 18, 1893. . The original disruption (for this and not se-cession is, I think, the just appellation) in 1843, withthe circumstances of the preceding decade, are stillfresh in my recollection, and have a
. Correspondence on church and religion of William Ewart Gladstone; . hout compromise ofprinciple of conscience, and none other. I would not wish to address a heartier audience thanthe young men of the Congregational College at Not-tingham, and on no point did they give me a warmerresponse than on what I said for denominational-ism. . 102. To the Moderator of the Free Kirk Assernbly. London, May 18, 1893. . The original disruption (for this and not se-cession is, I think, the just appellation) in 1843, withthe circumstances of the preceding decade, are stillfresh in my recollection, and have at all times beenregarded by me with lively and sympathetic interest. I am not personally associated with the PresbyterianChurches, but I conceive it to be historically true thatthe distinguished leaders of the Free Church move-ment, some of whom I have had the honour to call myfriends, were, in the course they followed half a cen-tury ago, the genuine representatives of the spirit of theScottish Reformation. It is yet more important, and is, I think, wholly. Photo, John Stewart, Largs. MR. GLADSTONE, 1889. 1894] WALES AND ENGLAND 189 beyond dispute, that the procession of April 19, whenit set out from the Assembly Hall, and when its mem-bers gave up their temporal goods and expectationsfor the sake of conscience, exhibited a noble and heart-stirring spectacle, of which the glory belongs in thefirst instance to themselves, and forms a precious In-heritance for the Free Church, but which was entitledto excite, and did excite, the cordial, and even enthu-siastic, admiration of Christendom. It was, indeed,justly felt that mankind, and especially Christian man-kind, were the better for such an example. There were other remarkable features of the move-ment which well deserve commemoration, but whichare almost wholly eclipsed by its moral notable was the statesmanship with which thewhole controversy was conducted. And then camethe extraordinary financial skill which p
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