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majority in the United States Senate, by the
election of Mr.. Lapham.
DEM STANLEY IND HIS TIMES.

activity and controversial zeal are revived
whenever commanding figure in the English
Church is stricken down. Dean Arthur penrhyn
Stanley was born in Il period Of stagnation,
when the clergy were the creatures of official
routine and the Establishment almost as llStleSs
and sluggish department of the civil SER
vice. 1t was in 1910, four years before his be-
loved associate in after years, Charles Kings
ley, first saw the light and a year after the
future Bishop ColensO was born. John Henry
Newman then on the eve of his departure
for Oxford, a Nationalist half way through his
teens, who had been reading IIume's ESSAYS
and Noltare'S verses almost as closely as he had
conncd his Catcchism. Henry Edward Nam
ming, like Newman, London merchants son.
had barely learned his alphabet. John Keble
had just been ordained Edward Bouverie
Pussy had not yet appeared at Oxford, but
Thomas Arnold, a disputatious youth with
some religious opinions that were still unset
tied was already there, carrying off prizes and n
fellowship. Maurice, whose successor Stanley
was to become as the leader of Il new school
of thought in the English Church, was only in
his eleventh year. 1t was duh, lifelcSs, tran
sition period. There was nothing to herald
those great controversial movements which
to stir the rcligous life of England to its
lowest depths
The storm and stress of the Tractarian Move
ment had opened when Stanley went up from
Rugby to win a scholarship at Balliol in 1894
keble's "Chrstan Year" published seven
years before, had given delicate expression to
devotional feeling known only in the Roman
communion. a RcgiuS Professor who was
aftcrward Bishop of Oxford, had delivered Il
remarkable course of lectures for tn" purpose
of demonstrating that many of the d0gmas and
rites of the Roman Church were not excluded
from the Anglican Church by the Book of Com
mon Prayer and ancient usage. DR.. Newman
was preaching at st. Mary's, with DR.. PuSev as
his closest friend and Manning as an humble
follower. About them was gathered the flower
of the Oxford youth-Froudc, Wibcrforce
Richard llurrcll, and many more. The "Tracts
for the Times" the publication of which had
been begun in the previous year, were falling
thick and fast from the press. \ new departure
had been taken which was To mark the sharpcst
division of the religious thought OF the century
The exciting controversies, which were to make
Oxford the intellectual and religious centre of
England, had already opened, when DIR.
Arnolds favorte pupil entered upon his uni
verSity career. The masters teachings had left
permanent impress upon the students mind.
lie did not join the group Of brilliant men who
were shaping public opinion within and with
out the university. He took his stand with the
present Archbishop of Canterbury in protesting
against the tendencies Of the new school. He
remained ut oxford rs student, tutor secretary
and RcguS Professor of Ecclesiastical History
for long term Witnessing the publication of
the Fathers in English, the vehement protests
against the appointment of a latiudinaran rs
theological professor, the appearance of Tract
No. 90" the condemnation of DR.. Puscy's doc
uine on the Real Presence, the secession of
Fabcr Lockhart and Newman and many of their
followers from the Anglican Church. and the
development of Ritualism rs the natural out
growth of the Tractarian Movement.
Meanwhile, another group, rs markedly intel
lcctual a. the Iractarian cotcric at il, best had
been forming. Dr. Arnold, whose mission it
had been to raise the Christian laity to higher
levels OF thought and action, was the honorcd
leader of this school until his untimcly death in
lSl2, soon after he had been called to The
Regius Professorship of Modern History at Ok
ford. His place was taken 10y the son of a Uni
tartan preacher, who had declined a fellowship
at Cambridge on the ground that ne could
not sign the Thirty-ninc Articles. Sober
second thought led him into the Established
Church in lS2S after residence in Oxford
during the period when Kcbc's hymns were
first catching the ears of Engli>hmcn. Adyo-
eating new gospel of Christian Socialism and
founding Il workmgncn's college in London.
Maurice made Charles Kingsley his hcaItic,t
colleague, but the purity Of his spiritual concern
tons, the independence and yigor of his views
the faultlessncsS of his English and the snbtlrty
Of his reasoning were no, lost upon the yorn .rr
men who sympathzed with hm-ampng them.
Stanley, Robertson and Farar. The Broad
Church circle was not an aggressive body of
men. They looked upon Imctarians and Evan
gclicals as heating themselves unucccssorilv in
their endless controversies. They were tolo-
rant, 50 far as the beliefs of others vcro cou-
ccmcd, and at the same time Jealous Of thcr
own liberty. Maurice knew that hi. vi,,.s of
the Atoncmcnt and Future Punishment were
not i'll accord with the mass of sentiment il fine
communion, but he insisted upon havinc fine
same measure of freedom accorded to him
which he willingly gave to Others In like man
ncr, Dean Stanley appeared IA the leader Of
minority in the English Church which aimed to
deal lcniontly with bishop Colcnso.
The Broad Churchmcn have been prccmi-
ncntly men Of letters. Arnold, KINGSLEY. Nam
rice, Robertson and Stanley were all yoluni-
nous authors, whose histories, biographies. SCR
mons and controversial writings have thn
common characteristics of purity. of style. re-
flncment of thought and breadth of treatment
Among them the author of the " life and Car
rcspondcncc of DIR. AnoIdn and fine . IIisfo,,,
OF the Jewish Church has taken hioh rank
Ills natural successor us the leader of the most
tolerant and intellectual section of the Enuli.b
Church is Canon Farrar.