It is true that Professor Newman's censures were small and were not irreverent.

But if these could come from a man of his intense piety, what will and what do come from other quarters may be readily conjectured.

Indeed, the fact is daily growing more and more evident, that for the world that still calls itself Protestant, the autocracy of Christ's moral example is gone; and its nominal retention of power only makes its real loss of it the more visible.

It merely reflects and focalises the uncertainty that men are again feeling--the uncertainty and the sad bewilderment.

The words and the countenance, once so sure and steadfast, now change, as we look at, and listen to them, into new accents and aspects; and the more earnestly we gaze and listen, the less can we distinguish clearly what we hear or see.