The Bishop of Lincoln (Dr. Wordsworth); who, as Bishop of
'the diocese, presided at the Congress, and delivered the opening address, was rather drearily eloquent. His chief theme was the old one of the duty of preaching the truth in love, not conceding any particle of truth, however angular,—indeed, Dr. Wordsworth introduced an episodical panegyric on the great superiority of -squareness to roundness as a type of perfection, quoting with -approbation Simonides' saying that a good man is " square and without reproach." He did not object to Church Congresses rubbing off "bad corners," but he was quite against their rubbing off good corners, and as far as we can catch Dr. Wordsworth's meaning, the good corners are thirty-nine in number, and the good clergymen would be " thirty-nine-cornered and without reproach."
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