“I can only say, dear sir, that I deplore the fact that a man of your standing in the church, and one who has so often built up others in Christ, should now by your example in conduct be so acting, as to demoralise and distract the whole of that portion of the church of God to which your influence extends.”
Neither Groves nor Craik reached the standard of Newton’s almost matchless self-control, but it cannot be said that they exaggerated one whit the evils against which they bore their indignant protest.
