...it was a particular kind of spring: "Have we any right to take it strange, if, in this English land, the spring-time of the Church should turn out to be...spring, an uncertain, anxious time of hope and fear, joy and suffering, - of bright promise and budding hopes, yet withal, of keen blasts, and cold showers,...

...Christian General, so to speak, warn us so many years ago that the new spring of the Church among us might turn out to be ' an English spring : an uncertain anxious time of hope and fear, of joy and suffering—of bright promise and budding hope, yet withal, of keen blasts, and cold showers, and sudden...