Richard Chenevix Trench, Archbishop, Letters and Memorials, Vol. 2 of 2 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Richard Chenevix Trench, Archbishop, Letters and Memorials, Vol. 2 of 2
"For I was thankful now...
... that thus I was
Compelled, as by a gentle violence,
Not in the pages of dead books alone,
Nor merely in the fair page nature shows,
But in the living page of human life
To look and learn - not merely left to spin
Fine webs and woofs around me like the worm,
Till in mine own coil I had hid myself,
And quite shut out the light of common day,
And common air by which men breathe and live -
That being in a world of sin and woe,
Of woe that might in some part be assuaged,
Of sin that might be lessened in some part,
Heaven in its mercy did not suffer me
To live and dwell wholly apart from these."
R. C. T., Anti-Gnosticus.
On New Year's Day, the Feast of the Circumcision, 1864, in Christ Church Cathedral, Richard Chenevix Trench was consecrated Archbishop of Dublin, in the presence of an immense congregation, by the Primate of Ireland, Archbishop Beresford.
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