"I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your very clever and well-
written pamphlet, which I have read with no surprise but with most
painful interest; and I beg to thank you for the compliment implied
in your sending it to me. Your son ought to thank God for having a
father who will stand by him in trouble so manfully and wisely: and
as you say, this may be of the very greatest benefit to him: but it
may also do him much harm, if it makes him fancy that such men as
have expelled him are the real supporters of the Canon and
inspiration of Scripture, and of Orthodoxy in general.

"I said that I read your pamphlet without surprise. I must explain
my words. This is only one symptom of a great and growing movement,
which must end in the absolute destruction of 'Orthodox dissent'
among the educated classes, and leave the lower, if unchecked, to
"Mormonism, Popery, and every kind of Fetiche-worship. The
Unitarians have first felt the tide-wave: but all other sects will
follow; and after them will follow members of the Established Church
in proportion as they have been believing, not in the Catholic and
Apostolic Faith, as it is in the Bible, but in some compound or
other of Calvinist doctrine with Rabbinical theories of magical
inspiration, such as are to be found in Gaussen's Theopneustic--a
work of which I cannot speak in terms of sufficient abhorrence,
however well meaning the writer may have been. Onward to Strauss,
Transcendentalism--and Mr. John Chapman's Catholic Series is the
appointed path, and God help them!--I speak as one who has been
through, already, much which I see with the deepest sympathy
perplexing others round me; and you write as a man who has had the
same experience. Whether or not we agree in our conclusions at
present, you will forgive me for saying, that every week shows me