At the Working-Class meeting the Bishop made an appeal to
the working-class to judge the clergy, Bishops and all, as men,— men of just the same kind of infirmity and tempers as other people,—and not to believe that the 20,000 Anglican clergy are '20,000 hypocrites, preaching what they do not believe, though lie admitted that there is enough of affected, sanctified, unreal phrase- ology in their mouths to raise at times a not unjust prejudice against them. Perhaps one reason why the clergy are so stiff and un realin manner is not that they preach what they do not believe,—a very rare phenomenon, we imagine, among the clergy, —but that they think they ought to care exclusively for what they preach, whereas they do care very actively for a great deal else which they affect to make light of. If, while trying to be Christians, they would only speak their minds, even if a little secular, earthly, and un-Chris- tian, rather than purse up their mouths and look prim whenever the natural Adam suggests anything to them,—they would get a great deal more trust and real experience than they do.
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