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 and the political. The two first he would remit to the consideration of his successors; but certainly the time had come for the Church to be rid of the last. The primate then went on to intimate that both himself and the other Church dignitaries present would now quit the august assemblage before them never to re-enter it. And then and there, in the silence of the profoundest sensation, he made good his words by himself retiring from the House, followed by the whole episcopal bench.

By this bold and high-minded, but also politic course, our beloved Church enormously advanced her interests, and her influence with the whole people—so much so, indeed, as to materially help her, further on, to enter successfully upon another and still greater step in her history, to which I shall have occasion presently to allude. I must not, however, omit the concluding incident of the memorable event above described. In an after address to the Church, the primate most heartily congratulated her on her now spiritually freed and improved condition. She could now at last, and, as he warmly added, only now, with a perfectly clear conscience, continue to rebuke that corrupt old Church from which, centuries ago, they had been compelled wholly to disassociate themselves, for her selfish longings after her lost temporal power—longings which happily still continued as vain and unattainable as they were selfish and profane.