[227] The famous emendation of the thirteenth stanza in the Gunpowder Treason hymn, which now reads in all editions of _The Christian Year_,―― ‘There present in the heart As in the hands,’ was made after Keble’s death, by his executors, and in accordance with his own request. The request was based upon that of ‘my dear friend Hurrell Froude,’ over thirty years before. Keble had long held out against the alteration, and for what he thought good cause, even against Pusey, maintaining that ‘Not in the hands’ should be understood as ‘Not [only] in the hands.’ He had precedents and analogies to lean upon. But when Bishop Jeune on February 9, 1866, quoted the original lines in Convocation as against the Real Objective Presence, the poet, then near his end, eagerly effected the change. The ordinary reader may wonder whether a more astounding variant be known to doctrinal statement. [228] Both quotations are from one of the loveliest and tenderest numbers of _The Christian Year_: that entitled ‘Holy Baptism,’ stanzas v. and iii. [229] ‘Someone’ was of course quoting from the Vulgate, the Song of Solomon, iv., 11. [230] The Rev. John Keble, Sr., died on Jan. 24, 1835, aged 89. [231] Thus in the Newman _Correspondence_, ii., 94. In the _Remains_ the reading is ‘little to boast of.’ [232] Froude would not have heard of the famous contest for the Speakership on Feb. 19, 1835, as he left the West Indies in March, or early April. James Abercromby, Esq., of Edinburgh, obtained on that day a majority of ten over Sir Charles Manners Sutton, who thereupon retired in chagrin from public life, and was created Viscount Canterbury. [233] _Letters of Frederic Lord Blachford_, edited by George Eden Marindin. London: Murray, 1896, p. 24. [234] _Reminiscences_, ii., 14. [235] ‘The Oxford Counter-Reformation,’ in _Short Studies on Great Subjects_, 4th Series: 1883. [236] Tract 63, afterwards published, with additions, in the _Remains_, part i., ii., 383-423. [237] (With dogma: not with disease!) [238] _The Ritualists, or Non-Natural Catholics._ London: Shaw & Co., 2nd edition, 1867, p. 73. [239] In the Church of England, he means. Catholic altars were, and are, always of stone, the custom of stone altars having been ruled as obligatory at the Council of Epaon, A.D. 517. Dr. Pusey’s dismay will be remembered at the adverse decision given on 31st January, 1845, against stone altar-slabs, as ‘revived’ in S. Sepulchre’s Church at Cambridge. (Liddon’s _Pusey_, ii., 483.) [240] _La Renaissance Catholique en Angleterre_, par Paul Thureau-Dangin de l’Académie française. 1re Partie. Paris: Plon, 1899, p. 160.