There is a very touching letter extant, which the King wrote to Hurd in one of his great sorrows, expressing most feelingly the value in which George held the religious ministrations of his favourite bishop, and the high opinion he had of his piety and worth.If the dispenser of Church preferment was too apt to regard merely political ends, the recipient or expectant was on his part too barcelona ibiza flights often ready to play the courtier or to become the mere political partisan.And for this very reason the autobiography is all the more valuable as an illustration of the subject before us.Walpole have already barcelona ibiza flights been noticed.As a rule, the political influence of the clergy was not very wisely exercised.' The praise contained in this last barcelona ibiza flights sentence was thoroughly deserved.'I determined to study nothing but my Bible, being much unconcerned about the opinions of councils, fathers, churches, bishops, and other men as little inspired as myself.The population of the country had far outgrown the resources of the National Church, even if her barcelona ibiza flights ministers had been as energetic as they were generally the reverse and there were no voluntary societies for home missions to supply the defects of the parochial machinery.'The provision of 2,000l.' This unpopularity arose from a complication of causes which need not be investigated in this place it is sufficient to notice the fact, which should be thoroughly borne in mind in estimating the value to be attached to contemporary complaints of clerical barcelona ibiza flights misdoings.' 'His income was amply sufficient, and scarce any bishop had two more comfortable or convenient houses.'Having,' he tells us, 'no place of residence in barcelona ibiza flights my diocese, I turned my attention to the improvement of land.His memoir contains evidently not the exceptional sentiments of one who was either in advance of or behind his age, but reflects a faithful picture of a general attitude of mind very prevalent among Church dignitaries of that date.But to those who believe in it as a Divine institution, the picture will convey a different barcelona ibiza flights impression.