Note and Comment.

Thus Cardinal Newman upon the clerical pomps and vanities at Oxford: "I can not bear the pomp and pretense which I see everywhere. I am not speaking against individuals, but I speak of the system. There are ministers of Christ with large incomes, living in finely furnished houses, with wives and families, and stately butlers, and servants in livery, giving dinners all in the best style, so descending and gracious, waving their hands, and mincing their words as if they were the cream of the earth, but without anything to make them clergymen but a black coat and white tie. And the bishops and deans come with women tucked under their arm; and they can't enter church but a fine powdered man runs first with a cushion for them to sit on and a warm sheepskin to keep their feet from the stones."