In earlier years _Punch_, as we know, had overlooked Lord Shaftesbury's great services as a practical philanthropist in view of his Sabbatarianism. But he had learned to dissociate Lord Shaftesbury from the "snuffling sect" of Puritan killjoys, and in 1868 indulges in a eulogy of his Protestant zeal against Popery and Ritualism. The ballad on the insurrection in Spain, in the early winter of that year, shows no abatement of _Punch's_ distrust of Romanism. The end of the Temporal Power in 1870 was welcomed as the logical, inevitable, and desirable consummation of Italian unity: it made Italy, not the Vatican, mistress of Rome, and it was in keeping with the consistent policy of the paper that the Pope's pretensions as a peace-maker in 1871 should be roughly disputed. England, it is claimed, was the true pacificator of Europe, and Professor (afterwards Sir John) Seeley's observations in "How to keep the Peace" suggest the possibility of a League of Nations. The end of this period was marked by the passing of a great divine, a famous bishop and the greatest of missionaries. In the memorial verses printed on April 13, 1872, _Punch_ recognized the true saintliness, the love of truth, the nobly righteous indignation of F. D. Maurice:-- The life of love he lived, the truth he spoke, The seeds of good he sowed on earth remain. In many brave hearts, eased from Evil's yoke, The fruitful soul of Maurice lives again. Incidentally it is noted that Maurice never received any preferment, bishopric, canonry, or deanery. [Sidenote: _Wilberforce and Livingstone_] The lines given below on Wilberforce, who is coupled with Lord Westbury, are largely inspired by the _de mortuis_ note. The writer begins by recording the worst that had been said of both--the slyness of the sleek priest, the sneers and scorn and mincing tones of the bitter lawyer. But now we know better, and recognize that the dove was blended with the serpent in both:-- And so, Life's judgment set to right by Death's, Lay busy Bishop and keen Judge to rest; And, by their coffins, think with bated breaths, How good the worst of us, how bad the best. [Illustration: A PAN-ANGLICAN WASHING DAY CHORUS OF OLD WASHERWOMEN: "There! Take'em away--we can't be worrited with them things." "If the seventy-five members of the Pan-Anglican Synod have not a single word to say upon any of the great questions, theoretical or practical, which concern the very existence of the Church of England, their impotent caution and misplaced decency will do more to endanger it than any external attack with which it is at present threatened."--_Pall Mall Gazette._] Writing of Livingstone, always one of his heroes, _Punch_ does not agree with the view that his was a wasted life, or that a greater work of reclamation was to be done at home, and applauds the unselfishness, fearlessness, and vision of one who died in sight of evening rest and honours fairly won:--