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Protestant Churchman of the type of Cranmer, Ridley and Jewel, with whose works his teaching, both from the pulpit and through the medium of the press, has proved him thoroughly familiar. In combination with this knowledge he brings the profounder and more spiritual Evangelicalism of the great Puritans of the seventeenth century such, for instance, as Owen, Howe and Goodwin, whose massive volumes on the deep things of God he has obviously also perused with relish and great advantage.

The Archdeacon is a Churchman born and bred, baptised and confirmed in the United Church of England and Ireland the latter by the learned Archbishop Whateley, at whose feet he sat. By birth he is an Irishman, and through out his long and remarkably useful career he has retained the ready wit and, to some extent, the distinguishing characteristics in speech of his countrymen. It is now over fifty years ago since he graduated at Trinity College, Dublin, where his enthusiasm and application to hard study were rewarded with the Catechetical prizes and the Downe s Divinity prize for Extempore speaking and Theology. The records of his old University indicate that in 1847 he managed to win for himself a place in the &quot;first class&quot; for the B.A. degree (Respondent). Since then many years have elapsed years which have witnessed the Arch deacon grow ever a more ardent scholar, ever a

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