Some Churchmen, however, scruple to assume this attitude; they recognise a soul of good in the agitation, if it could be stripped of the revolutionary and atheistic elements of its propaganda, which they hold to be, after all, merely accidental accompaniments of the system, at once foreign to its essence and pernicious to its purpose.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
That it scourged with its mockery those things in both Church and State which Erasmus and More and many another fervent Churchman hated,-such as the crying evils which called aloud for reformation in the highest places, and above all, that it lashed the detested friars whom the best Churchmen most loathed,-these things were foregone conclusions in such a composition.
"Holbein"
Beatrice Fortescue
His judges are Churchmen: neutral on the subject of marriage; rather coarsely masculine in their idea of the destiny of women.
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr