Others of their undertakings, in weaker hands than theirs, seem out of date among the ideas and beliefs which now are prevalent.

At Clapham, as elsewhere, the old order is changing, and not always in a direction which to them would be acceptable or even tolerable.

What was once the home of Zachary Macaulay stands almost within the swing of the bell of a stately and elegant Roman Catholic chapel; and the pleasant mansion of Lord Teignmouth, the cradle of the Bible Society, is now a religious house of the Redemptorist Order.

But in one shape or another honest performance always lives, and the gains that accrued from the labours of these men are still on the right side of the national ledger.

Among the most permanent of those gains is their undoubted share in the improvement of our political integrity by direct, and still more by indirect, example.
It would be ungrateful to forget in how large a measure it is due to them that one, whose judgments upon the statesmen of many ages and countries have been delivered to an audience vast beyond all precedent, should have framed his decisions in accordance with the dictates of honour and humanity, of ardent public spirit and lofty public virtue..