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‘The Divine, who spends all his time in study and contemplation on objects ever so sublime and glorious, while his people are left uninstructed, acts the same part as the eagle, that sits all day staring at the sun while her young ones were starving in the nest.’ Bishop Horne’s Essays, p. 71. ‘Can anything be more opposed’ (asks an eloquent Presbyter of his brethren) ‘to the simple character of a herald of Christ, than a mere taste for elegant literature, the mere labour of a scientific student, the mere ardour of the philosopher or the historian? Was it for this that you undertook the cure of souls? Is it for this that you desert your prayer closet, your sick chambers, your private devotional duties? A literary spirit in a Minister of Christ is direct rebellion against the first claims of his high office.’ Bishop of Calcutta’s Prefatory Essay to Baxter, p. 55.