He will leave the Church as he found it.

I was wrong.

He has done much more than that." He went on to say that there was now a far greater charity between the different schools than existed at the beginning of the century, and that if unity had not been attained, at least disruption had been avoided.
One of the most eloquent and far-sighted of the Evangelicals puts the matter to me in this fashion: "It is possible that fifty years hence men may ask whether he ought not to have been constructive; but for the present we, his contemporaries, must confess that it is wonderful how he keeps things together." "Pull yourself together!" was the admonition addressed to a somewhat hilarious undergraduate.

"But I haven't got a together," he made answer.
If it be true that a house divided against itself cannot stand, then we must admit that Dr.Randall Davidson is not merely one of the Church's greatest statesmen, but a worker of miracles, a man whom we might expect to take up serpents and drink any deadly thing.
But it will be safe to keep the Archbishop's reputation in the region of statesmanship.
The reader, I hope, will not think me either pedantic or supercilious if I insist that no word is more misused by the newspapers, indeed by the whole modern world, than this word statesmanship.

It is a word of which the antonym is drifting.