Among the poor around him he was idolized, and by such clergy of his diocese as were not enthusiastic in their theology either on the one side or on the other, he was regarded as a model bishop.

By the very high and the very low,--by those rather who regarded ritualism as being either heavenly or devilish,--he was looked upon as a timeserver, because he would not put to sea in either of those boats.

He was an unselfish man, who loved his neighbour as himself, and forgave all trespasses, and thanked God for his daily bread from his heart, and prayed heartily to be delivered from temptation.

But I doubt whether he was competent to teach a creed,--or even to hold one, if it be necessary that a man should understand and define his creed before he can hold it.

Whether he was free from, or whether he was scared by, any inward misgivings, who shall say?
If there were such he never whispered a word of them even to the wife of his bosom.