St. Benedict of Aniane (751-821), the friend and adviser of Louis the Pious, became a reformer of Benedictine rule and practice.

The theory, which I now for the first time rightly apprehended, ceased altogether to be discouraging; and, besides the relief to my spirits, I no longer suffered under the burdenso heavy to one who aims at being a reformer in opinionsof thinking one doctrine true and the contrary doctrine morally beneficial.

I read in the National Reformer for November 24, 1867, that in the preceding week, he was pleading on Clerkenwell Green for these men's lives: "According to the evidence at the trial, Deasy and Kelly were illegally arrested.

For Aberalva is like Paris (if the answer of a celebrated sanitary reformer to the Emperor be truly reported), "fair without but foul within.

Hence, such reformers as Calvin and Knox did not deem it necessary to rebaptize those who had been converted from the Roman Catholic faith; and, if I do not mistake, even Roman Catholics do not insist on rebaptizing Protestants.

We see in Cranmer no uncompromising and aggressive reformer like Knox,controlling by a stern dogmatism both a turbulent nobility and an uneducated people, and filling all classes alike with inextinguishable hatred of everything that even reminded them of Rome.

In Romola George Eliot portrays the character and acts of this great reformer with a legitimate intensifying, for artistic purposes, of the certified facts of history.

By some she is considered a reformer before Luther, because she insisted on direct communication between the communicant and God without the mediation of priests or saints.

The Conservative keeps the Reformer from going too fast, and plucking the fruit before it is ripe.

by the very character of the reformers by which this well-meaning Utopian attempted to oppose it.

Deeply impressed with the prevailing laxity of morals and the absence of religion, he lifted up his voice more as a reformer than as an inquirer after truth, and taught for more than fifty years in a place called the Stoa, "the Porch," which had once been the resort of the poets.

they soon tired of his severities, sighed for their vanities back again, and at last burned the reformer at the stake.

But they aroused the utmost hatred in the conservative gentry and also in the moderate reformers among the gentry.

The churches of Africa were rent by their implacable feuds, and on so small a matter,even as the ranks of the reformers under Luther were so soon divided by the Anabaptists.

He who is so guided by the love of letters engrafted on the love of man as to give constant and ample expression to these motives, will be neither a reformer without grace nor a scholar without manliness.

fell away by degrees from the troublesome reformer against whom were leagued all those who were about him.

Another debatein this very quarrelsome spring of 1887was a written one in the National Reformer between the Rev. G.F. Handel Rowe and myself on the proposition, "Is Atheism logically tenable, and is there a satisfactory Atheistic System for the guidance of Human Conduct."

Dr. Arnold used to divide reformers into two classes, popular and liberal.

BRADLAUGH, CHARLES, a social reformer on secularist lines, born in London; had a chequered career; had for associate in the advocacy of his views Mrs. Annie Besant; elected M.P. for Northampton thrice over, but not allowed to sit till he took the oath, which he did in 1886; died respected by all parties in the House of Commons; wrote the "Impeachment of the House of Brunswick" (1833-1891).

It was a fine thing, that throbbing humanity, which could in those days burst the reformer out of the evangelical husk, and I learned my lesson from it.

Child marriage and compulsory widowhood are condemned by every social reformer up and down the length of India.

He ruled indeed at Geneva as Savonarola did in Florence, but he did not have as liberal ideas as the Florentine reformer about the political liberties of the people.