A passage from his letters to the Bishop of London runs as
follows: "With regard to my own conduct I can only say that nothing
on earth will induce me to do what you propose. I do not judge for
others, but in me it would be base and untrue." On another occasion
Dr. Temple, when pressed in the interest of the institution of
learning under his care to detach himself from his associates in
writing the book, declared to a meeting of the masters of the
school that, if any statements were made to the effect that he
disapproved of the other writers in the volume, he should probably
find it his duty to contradict them. Another of these letters to
the Bishop of London contains sundry passages of great force. One
is as follows: "Many years ago you urged us from the university
pulpit to undertake the critical study of the Bible. You said that
it was a dangerous study, but indispensable. You described its
difficulties, and those who listened must have felt a confidence
(as I assuredly did, for I was there) that if they took your advice
and entered on the task, you, at any rate, would never join in
treating them unjustly if their study had brought with it the
difficulties you described.
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