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DIR. Pusey and the Ritualists.

The Rev. DIR. Pusey has written the
following letter to the London Times ex-
planning the position Of himself and Others
wbo thlnk with him in regard to the new
ecclesiastical law in England: "Sir: You
J Sehtly nnd iault with me for not keeping i'm
| check tnose ot my party who did extrayagant
| things; but, in truth, never imagined my
sell the head OF any party, nor allowed myself
to act as such. My friends, with whom /
worked from 1888, had, indeed, one common
obJecl-to raise up mems minds to the STAN
dard OF facts and practices set before us in
the Church Of England or by those great
minds TO which she referred us-the old
Catholic Fathers. We preached, taught.
published, some prose, some poetry, wrote
tracts, edited translations of the Fathers,
leavened minds, wherever they were, by the
help OF God, in Europe, the United States,
India. We were as one because our standard
was one. We blew the trumpets in the first
instance, and the propagators of the faith
sprang up; we knew not whence or how.
The only one qualified, from his powerful and
organizing mind, to be leader of party
D. IL. NeWman-ever, from his inherent
modesty, shrank from it. 1t haG been well
for us II he had not, and had restrained those
who thought themselves more advanced.
SIN later times there was much which
thought unwise. and which, l feared, would
ALLEVIATE rather than win the people of Eng
land. But L had no office (such as an Arch
deacon's) which entitled me TO interfere with
Others, or to mind any other vineyard than
my own. / could say nothing publicly with
out assuming what was not-the head of q
party. When | could l urged, usque ad
ndusedm, any L could influence not to make
any changes without having first won the
people. In me this want of position was no
modesty. Younger men thought themselves
more advanced than the veterans of 1888. /.
for my part, thought that Phaeton was driv-
ing the chariot OF the sun; but they had as
much right to their opinion as to mine, so
they went their way; l held ON to mine
"But now bygones ars bygones. The
Church Association has forced us into being
party. Even the brute creation will gather
into one herd in presence of those who seek
their life. The Church Associations avows
that it attacks those same truths which some
OF us have taught for the last forty years,
having received them from those before us.
1t ayows-e. o., that the eastward position of
the celebrant would be Indifferent Gas, of
course, it would) but that it has been made
to symbolic what it thinks error, what we
know to be primitive truth, and to have been
taught as such by long catena Of English
clvlnes before us. What more can we do
but gather into one to defend ourselves as
one-at least by passive resistance?
This was the expression of the meeting in
st. James Hall last month, which was one of
the most enthusiastic, but at the same time
most determined, at which | have myself
been present. 1t seemed TO me welding to-
gether of those who hold the same truths, in
to one compact body. Those who held them
selves the most advanced seemed ready to
retire into the main body; those who had
hitherto held middle position threw them
selves, heart and soul into the common cause
the cause, as we held, of Gods truth which
is assaed, To judge from the enthusiastic
expression Of some three thousand men
themselves the representatives of many thou
sands more, including those who held them
selves extreme) they were one in Il loyalty
to the Church of England; (2) readiness to
obey the law when it should be ascertained
what is the law; ~ a consciousness of the
greatness OF the issue, the sacramental doc
trine of Holy Scripture and the primitive
Church (4) utter indifference 10 any tempo
raj consequences which might ensue to any
of us.
"Tne legislature has, think, according to
the expressive proverb, put the cart before
the horse it has framed a machine to enforce
the law mot so very speedy as people think,
since it is only the substitution of two courts
for thee, and the grinders of the new law
that the present bad law was to be in force
pendente Rte-have been extracted) but wla
the law is, or shall be, which is to be enforced,
is not yet settled. II have read Alright the
minds OF those whom you call my party-i.
e., those with whom L think and believe-the
new office will be a sinecure if the law Is sound
ly established. We desire no concessions; we
desire only sound Interpretation of existing
law. II what We hold to be bad law were en-
forced, those who would be glad to suffer
would be enough to turn the edsee. edsee.f ef obedient
servant, E. b. PUsEi.