Note 25 — VICARAGE OF BROUGHTON-IN-FURNESS

My clerical friends and brethren must not be displeased with me if I here mention the fact that at the meeting of twenty-three clergy where I proposed to read Mr. Ruskin's letters to them, I was only authorized to do so by a majority of two. I can scarcely describe the dismay and consternation with which the letters themselves were received,—though of course not universally, in another meeting of the same number.