MS Miss Sarah Jardine-Willoughby
My dear Mr Ashwell
I have been waiting to answer your kind letter till I had seen the new Literary Churchman, which had to travel round by Otterbourn. It was a refreshing sight after so much as one has been hearing of the cui bono apropos to the Synod.1 I think that in the native Devonian nature there is a strong spirit of thinking for oneself, which has led to much defiance of the Bishop, almost because he spoke authoritatively and I think the expectation of the same spirit being aroused by the Encyclical prevents some here from doing it justice.2 Did you see an article in the last Saturday Review, on Christian Converts, which taking the common sense, worldly outside view was a marvellous illustration of the Apocalyptic description of the Woman on the Beast Your interpretation of the Church tainted by the World, and losing her real power in proportion as she depends upon it, might almost stand by the side of the paper I mean.
The proper style of our Church is ‘the Church of the Resurrection, Eastleigh’ the latter word being the name of the old farm on a field of which it is built.
Miss Wilford is delighted to give us Font, Burial and Marriage books instead; and I think we shall be most beautifully fitted in that respect. I think we shall be here till the 30th when we are to be at Babbacombe for the Consecration of All Saints Church and the Octave of services arising.
yours sincerely
C M Yonge