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more unflinching exponent of that view of the Protestant faith dear to his heart. In a sentence, Dr Taylor occupies a really unique position. Not withstanding the unpopularity of his ideas with the majority of the present generation of Churchmen, he is still loved and respected as one of the fathers of the Church, from whom the author ventures to observe the withholding of promotion to the episcopacy (a position many thought him long ago eminently fitted for) has, happily, served to retain him in a sphere of greater and wider usefulness, and an unfettered critic and controversalist. Opportunities for rising to higher things have certainly come in his way. It is a fact not widely known that the late Bishop Ryle, in one of his early illnesses, proposed to make Dr Taylor his suffragan Bishop, but this Dr Taylor declined, recommending the Bishop to appoint an assistant Bishop, which course was adopted. In its time Dublin University has contributed to the world many distinguished men men like the two Arch bishops Magee (the first of Dublin, the other, his grandson, of York), Archbishop Usher, and the great metaphysician Bishop Berkeley (Bishop of Cloyne), Professor Salmon, Dr M Neile, Dr MacNeece, Bishop Russell (North China), Bishop Bowen of Sierra Leone, Dr Butcher (Bishop of Meath), Dean Forrest (of Worcester), Dean Lefroy (of Norwich), Viscount Wolseley, Professor Lecky, M.P. (for the University), and others ; but it is

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