What was this but to judge him by his creed?
True, his whole theory was nothing but Romanism transferred to England: but what then?
I had studied with the deepest interest Mrs.Schimmelpenninck's account of the Portroyalists, and though I was aware that she exhibits only the bright side of her subject, yet the absolute excellencies of her nuns and priests showed that Romanism _as such_ was not fatal to spirituality.

They were persecuted: this did them good perhaps, or certainly exhibited their brightness.

So too my brother surely was struggling after truth, fighting for freedom to his own heart and mind, against church articles and stagnancy of thought.

For this he deserved both sympathy and love: but I, alas! had not known and seen his excellence.

But now God had taught me more largeness by bitter sorrow working the peaceable fruit of righteousness; at last then I might admire my brother.