To them Catholicism meant Roman Catholicism, or, as they called it, Popery.

If a man were not a Protestant, he had no business to remain in the United Church of England and Ireland.

If he did remain in it, he was not merely mistaken, but dishonest, and sophistry could not purge him from the moral stain of treachery to the institution of which he was an officer.

Froude's sense of chivalry was aroused, and he warmly defended Newman, whom he knew to be as honest as himself, besides being saintly and pure.

If he had stopped there, all might have been well.