Excerpt from The Mission Field: A Monthly Record of the Proceedings of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, at Home and Abroad Archiepiscopal See that the Archbishop's relations to the Society have been most close and intimate. Accessible at all times, and always ready to listen to any appeal for his counsel and support, he made the office of President a more living power, and a more real spring of action in its councils, than had any of his immediate predecessors. He always gave full consideration to any proposal which came before him for the extension of the Episcopate abroad; and though his acquiescence was never given without taking care that the arguments on either side of a question were well weighed, yet when he yielded to conviction, and sometimes abandoned objections which his own caution had suggested, he gave a hearty support to the Society's efforts. In any question wherein the Society, as representing the Church, appeared to come in conflict with what the authorities of the Crown were willing to concede to it, the acknowledgment by those authorities of Archbishop Tait's statesmanlike capacity greatly tended to disarm their opposition, and to fee? The archbishop OF canterbury. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.