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Rh easily contained in the choir; the naves lay cold, empty and unused, except at St Paul's for the gathering of the charity school children once a year.” Odd reading this in the present day, but there can be no doubt that it is substantially correct, and that the Bishop has not in the least degree overdrawn the picture. With him “we may well thank God for the revival which He has given us—for the marvellous quickening of spiritual life.”

But let us pursue the Bishop's history further, and in less detail. From King's College, under Bishop Lonsdale, to whom, and to Frederic Denison Maurice, Bishop Barry perhaps owes as much as to any man his early religious bent—he went to Trinity College, Cambridge, where among his contemporaries must have been such men as the late Bishop Westcott, Bishop MacKenzie, and Lord Alwyne Compton, the Bishop of Ely. He did uncommonly well at the University, standing high in the first class of the Classical Tripos, and fourth among the Wranglers in the same year (1848) as the senior Wranglership fell to Todhunter. A fellowship of his college was the proper reward. In due course he proceeded to the M.A., B.D. and D.D. degrees, and on later dates the D.C.L. was conferred on him by the Universities of both Oxford and Durham. He was ordained Deacon at Ely, and Priest at Oxford, the latter in 1853. Subsequently he went the tutorial way of many Bishops—Dr Tait, Dr Benson and Dr Temple, to