We are much too apt to look at schism in our church as an unmitigated evil.

Moderate schism, if there may be such a thing, at any rate calls attention to the subject, draws in supporters who would otherwise have been inattentive to the matter, and teaches men to think upon religion.

How great an amount of good of this description has followed that movement in the Church of England which commenced with the publication of Froude's Remains! As a boy young Arabin took up the cudgels on the side of the Tractarians, and at Oxford he sat for a while at the feet of the great Newman.

To this cause he lent all his faculties.

For it he concocted verses, for it he made speeches, for it he scintillated the brightest sparks of his quiet wit.