V English Church. It was not an encouraging position. The old enthusiastic sanguineness had been effectually quenched. Their Liberal critics and their Liberal friends have hardly yet ceased to remind them how sorry a figure they cut in the eyes of men of the world, and in the eyes of men of bold and effective thinking.1 The "poor Puseyites" are spoken of in tones half of pity and half of sneer. Their part seemed played out. There seemed nothing more to make them of importance. They had not succeeded in Catholicising the English Church; they had not even shaken it by a wide secession. Henceforth they were only marked men. All that could be said for them was, that at the worst, they did not lose heart. They had not forgotten the lessons of their earlier time. It is not my purpose to pursue farther the course of the movement. All the world knows that it was not, in fact, killed or even much arrested by the shock of 1845. But after 1845, its field was at least as much out of Oxford as in it. As long as Mr. Newman remained, Oxford was necessarily its centre, necessarily, even after he had seemed to withdraw from it. When he left his place vacant, the direction of it was not removed from Oxford, but it was largely shared by men in London and the country. It ceased to be 1 E.g. the Warden of Merton's History of the University of Oxford, p. 212. "The first panic was succeeded by a reaction; some devoted adherents followed him (Mr. Newman) to Rome; others relapsed into lifeless conformity; and the University soon resumed its wonted tranquillity." 'Lifeless conformity" sounds odd connected with Dr. Pusey or Mr. J. B. Mozley, and the London men who were the founders of the so-called Ritualist schools. strongly and prominently Academical. No one indeed held such a position as Dr. Pusey's and Mr. Keble's; but though Dr. Pusey continued to be a great power at Oxford, he now became every day a much greater power outside of it; while Mr. Keble was now less than ever an Academic, and became more and more closely connected with men out of Oxford, his friends in London and his neighbours at Hursley and Winchester. The cause which Mr. Newman had given up in despair was found to be deeply interesting in ever new parts of the country: and it passed gradually into the hands of new leaders more widely acquainted with English society. It passed into the hands of the Wilberforces, and Archdeacon Manning; of Mr. Bennett, Mr. Dodsworth, Mr. W. Scott, Dr. Irons, Mr. E. Hawkins, and Mr Upton Richards in London. It had the sympathy and counsels of men of weight, or men who were rising into eminence and importance—some of the Judges, Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Roundell Palmer, Mr. Frederic Rogers, Mr. Mountague Bernard, Mr. 'Hope Scott (as he afterwards was), Mr. Badeley, and a brilliant recruit from Cambridge, Mr. Beresford Hope. It attracted the sympathy of another boast of Cambridge, the great Bishop of New Zealand, and his friend Mr. Whytehead. Those times were the link between what we are now, so changed in many ways, and the original impulse given at Oxford; but to those times I am as much of an outsider as most of the foremost in them were outsiders to Oxford in the earlier days. Those times are almost more important than the history of the movement; for, besides vindicating it, they carried on its work to achievements and successes which, even in the most sanguine days of "Tractarianism," had not presented themselves to men's minds, much less to their hopes. But that story must be told by others. "Show thy servants thy work, and their children thy glory." INDEX laity, 106, 107 ADDRESSES to Archbishop of Articles, the, and Dissenters, subscription of. See Dr. Anglicanism, its features in Hampden, and Thirty- Newman's interpretation of, BAPTISM, Tract on, 136, 262 CAMBRIDGE, critical school of Clergy of eighteenth century, theology, 16 Capes, Mr., 394 Cardwell, Dr., 327 Celibacy, observations on, 369 Christian Year, 21, 25 Church, the, in eighteenth cen- Dr. Whately's theories on, 94, 114, 228, 229 ΙΟΙ Dr. Pusey's theories on, theological aspect of, 190 and the Roman question, 201-217 character of, 3 Close, Dr. (of Cheltenham), 298 Coleridge, Mr. Justice, 333 Creeds, the, pamphlets on, IOI DALGAIRNS, Mr., 236, 237, 394 Dr., "Pastoral Diffusion of Useful Knowledge Dissenters and the Articles, 146- Dodsworth, Mr., 407 Doyle, Sir F., on Newman's Ecclesiologist founded, 403 Catholicity of, 226, 228, Eden, C. P., 325 240, 274 and the doctrine of Develop- ment, 229, 395 Edinburgh Review, article by Church of the Fathers, 190, 369" Elucidations of Dr. Hamp- " Churchman's Manual," 125 Scotch Bishops on, 125 Churton, Mr. (of Crayke), 126 den's Theological Statements," English Churchman founded, 403 |