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VIII

I have just arrived here, and find your kind note and cheque. I doubted about the article suiting you, but its tone and temper make it possible for a public such as we have at present; vicious attacks on the orthodox position do nothing but harm in every direction.[1] I cannot but hope that the line taken by me will prove, in the times upon which we are entering, to be of use; I feel myself really in sympathy with the religious world far more than with its assailants-even with the religious world as it is at present.[2]

I am afraid I must stick to my self-denying ordinance as to article-writing. I have already refused a request from America for an article on the revised version.[3]