. Life and times of William E. Gladstone : an account of his ancestry and boyhood, his career at Eton and Oxford, his entrance into public life, his rise to leadership and fame, his genius as statesman and author, and his influence on the progress of the nineteenth century. need not longer stand a menace to the progress andenlightenment of the nineteenth century. Parliament had recently shownits consideration for Rome in the Maynooth College Bill. If it had becomenecessary to hold amicable relations with the Roman Catholics of Irelandthere was a logical necessity of recognizing that power with
. Life and times of William E. Gladstone : an account of his ancestry and boyhood, his career at Eton and Oxford, his entrance into public life, his rise to leadership and fame, his genius as statesman and author, and his influence on the progress of the nineteenth century. need not longer stand a menace to the progress andenlightenment of the nineteenth century. Parliament had recently shownits consideration for Rome in the Maynooth College Bill. If it had becomenecessary to hold amicable relations with the Roman Catholics of Irelandthere was a logical necessity of recognizing that power with which theIrish Catholics were in such close ecclesiastical affiliation. He might be BEGINNINGS OF THE CHURCH QUESTION. 165 charged with inconsistencies. He miyht be misunderstood and misrepre-sented. It might be charged that he held in mind soDie future projectrelative to the Irish Church. By all these considerations, however, heshould not be moved to refuse his support to the pending measure. Norwill the reader fail to note in what the speaker hinted at in a possible futurepolicy respecting the Irish Catholics the shadowy outline and suggestionsof Disestablishment. Gladstone was already a Liberal. The same tendency was shown on several occasions when the question. LORD ELGIN. of the Jews obtruded itself before the House. The old oath which amember of Parliament must take required him to qualify on the true faithof a Christian. How could a Jew swear on the true faith of a Christian }\ The bar seemed to be absolute against every true Israelite, and surmount-I able only by him of casuistical disposition and most elastic conscience. Gladstone said, in one debate of this session, that the Jew ought not anylonger in justice to be prevented from sitting in the House of Commonson account of the diversity of his religious views from those of orthodox l66 LIFE AND UV WILLIAM E. GLADSTONE. Christians. For his part he would not liave oaths taken carelessly or in aloose sense. Out
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