The scheme does not hold good for the clergy of those denominations which have in some measure diverged from the old established schedule of beliefs or observances.

These take thought, at least ostensibly or permissively, for the temporal welfare of the laity, as well as for their own.

Their manner of life, not only in the privacy of their own household, but often even before the public, does not differ in an extreme degree from that of secular-minded persons, either in its ostensible austerity or in the archaism of its apparatus.

This is truest for those denominations that have wandered the farthest.

To this objection it is to be said that we have here to do not with a discrepancy in the theory of sacerdotal life, but with an imperfect conformity to the scheme on the part of this body of clergy.