Yet the man who said these things had devoted his whole life to his Master's service--thought of nothing else, and cared for nothing else."* -- * Short Studies on Great Subjects, 4th series, p.

212.
-- Froude had been taught by his brother, and his brother's set, to believe that Dissenters were, morally and intellectually, the scum of the earth.

Here were men who, though not Dissenters themselves, held doctrines practically undistinguishable from theirs, and yet united the highest mental training with the service of God and the imitation of Christ.

There was in the Cleaver household none of that reserve which the Tractarians inculcated in matters of religion.

The Christian standard was habitually held up as the guide of life and conduct, an example to be always followed whatever the immediate consequences that might ensue.