It was from the poor curate of a small Cornish parish that he first learnt to know that the highest laws for the governance of a Christian's duty must act from within and not from without; that no man can become a serviceable servant solely by obedience to written edicts; and that the safety which he was about to seek within the gates of Rome was no other than the selfish freedom from personal danger which the bad soldier attempts to gain who counterfeits illness on the eve of battle.
Mr.Arabin returned to Oxford a humbler but a better and a happier man, and from that time forth he put his shoulder to the wheel as a clergyman of the Church for which he had been educated.

The intercourse of those among whom he familiarly lived kept him staunch to the principles of that system of the Church to which he had always belonged.

Since his severance from Mr.Newman, no one had had so strong an influence over him as the head of his college.

During the time of his expected apostasy Dr.Gwynne had not felt much predisposition in favour of the young fellow.

Though a High Churchman himself within moderate limits, Dr.Gwynne felt no sympathy with men who could not satisfy their faiths with the Thirty-nine Articles.