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To the Very Reverend William John Butler
[1886]

MS location unknown. Printed in Romanes, Appreciation, 181.

[To the Very Reverend William John Butler]

A. must have known him at Trinity. He must have just missed Dr. Moberly at Winchester.1 . . . What I think wants to be understood now especially is how far want of faith is to be treated as Sin. The Bible and the Church have always done so (query). And now even the good seem to think it is only to be dealt with as a misfortune, and that one does the most awful harm by denouncing it.

1Arthur John Butler (1844–1910), son of William Butler, was an undergraduate and then a fellow of Trinity College Cambridge, and would there have encountered the hero of A. C. Benson's novel Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton, ed. 'Christopher Carr' (London Kegan Paul 1886), discussed here. Arthur Christopher Benson (1862–1925) was himself younger.

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The Letters of Charlotte Mary Yonge(1823-1901) edited by Charlotte Mitchell, Ellen Jordan and Helen Schinske.

URL to this Letter is: https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/yonge/2847/to-the-very-reverend-william-john-butler-3

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