Dr. Stanley was installed as Dean of Westminster on this
day week, and preached his first sermon in the Cathedral on Sunday afternoon, from the words of St. Paul's Roman epistle, about " presenting the body a living sacrifice truly acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service." It was a remarkable sermon on Christianity not merely as a religion of sacrifice "founded on the sacrifice of the Incarnation, culminating in the sacrifice of Calvary," but as one whose continuance in the world depended on "a con- tinued sacrifice,"—words, the deep meaning of which Dr. Stanley evidently understood, for he concluded his sermon with a noble and deserved tribute to the great work of his opponent, Dr. Words- worth, in sacrificing himself to arrest the spread of vice in the dis- trict around them. Dr. Wordsworth also preached in St. Paul's, on Sunday evening, a sermon evidently launched at Dr. Stanley, in which he grieved over the gloomy opening of the new year, with its spreading unbelief in the Bible. Both men were true to themselves, and it is the merit rather of Dr. Stanley's genial nature and convictions, if we cannot but think that his magnani- mous charity was a more acceptable " sacrifice" than Dr. Words- worth's effort of narrow, but in all probability faithful, and possibly even reluctant, bigotry.
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