Furthermore it is necessary for proper Qualification that he also believe rightly the mystification of the Grand Old Man.
For the right faith is that we believe and confess that the People’s William does good for mankind;
That he is perfect Genius and perfect Man and yet a reasonable Soul on Destructive Acts subsisting;
Equal to no one in Love of Office, and inferior to none in Design to retain it.
For as this reasonable Soul is Flesh and Blood, so Flesh and Blood cannot understand this reasonable Soul.
Who will permit any to suffer for his Salvation, and who hopes to rise again with his Bills from the Dead;
And whosoever follows shall enter as a Gladstonian politician, and he that does not may sink into political oblivion.
This is the Gladstonian faith, which except a man believe faithfully he cannot be elected.
June, 1886.