New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-09-18

forty years, he received from DR.. Pusey
hearty greeting. The Octogenarians were
still good friends.
The year 1923 must be taken as starting
point not only because the two leaders OIL
Tractarianism were installed in the positions
where they subsequently exerted so powerful
an influence upon the flower of the University
youth. but also because Keble's "Chnstlan
Year. published at that time gave fellcltous
expression to a peculiar devotional feeling pre-
viously confined TO the Roman communion.
The period of stagnation, when the EstaD-
lished Church was almost as listless and tor
MD as a department of the civil service, was
drawing to close. New forces were being
brought to bear at the centre of the intellectual
life of England. The clergy were preparing
to become something more than creatures q
official routine. Great controversial move
ments which were to stir the religious lie OF
England TO its depths were already heralded.
New men were rising. DR.. Arnold had just
established himself at Rugby to give form ana
direction to education. Maurice. having sue
ceeded in clearing from his mind the mlstS
of phlOsophic speculation, had been ordained
at oxford, and was preparing to rally about
him adherents from the younger clergy by the
purity of his religious conceptions and his
practical ideas of pastoral work. The Broad
Church men of letters, conspicuous tor toler-
ancc breadth of treatment and perfection OF
literary style, had not arisen. Stanley and Rob
crtson were at school; Kingsley was III MS
tenth wear. Free-thlnking COlensO was IN the
nursery coming mathematics. But at OXFORD
there were scores of disciples whose ears were
caught by the melody Of Kebie's hymns ana
whose minds were swayed by the earnest
ness and logical power of Il Newman ana the
scholarship of Pussy. A brilliant COM
pany of followers rallied around the
sweet singer, the eloquent preacher and the
learned professor. Within five years the
Anglo-Catholic movement was organized.
Tract followed tract until Dr. Newman sue
ceeded in arguing himself out of the Anglican
Church with an influential body of adherents.
The publication OF the FEATHERS in Engllsll,
originally designed as protest against lat-
itudinaIian theology, carried DR.. Pussy long
way in the same direction until at last his ser
mon on the Real Presence fell under the ban OF
the University. This was in 1913. DR.. New
man left ST. Mays about the same time. Dr.
Arnold. his keenest intellectual adversary, had
died the year before. In the brief period which
had interviewed since 1s2S the English Church
had been shaken by tremendous force Not
only shaken, but purified and refined
The withdrawal of DR.. Newman LETT Dr.
Pussy the acknowledged leader of the High
Church school in the Anglican Church. The
movement came to be popularity designated as
Puseyism, and when RitualiSm sprung up as Its
natural outcome, the Regius Professor OF
Hebrew found himself in false position. DIT.
Puscv has been acting with the Rtuall>ts dur
inc recent wears, especially in opposing the
Intervention of State courts in religious mat
ters. but a Kitualst he has never ayowed HIM
self. Details Of ceremonial have not engrossed
his attention. The clcrgyman's position III
the clanccl. the cut, color and trimmings +
yesimcnts and .hc use OF altar lights, INCENSE,
unlravened bread and water mingled with
wine, may have been regarded by HIM as con
yenicnt signs Of approach to Il common meet
ing-ground of primitive, medieval and mod
ern Christianity. But these were minor details
calculated to catch eye and ear and to promote
devotional feeling The fundamental doe
trines of 1ractaransm were wcightier matters
which influenced the understanding, and with
these he was chiefly concerned, Dr. Newman
scribcd TO the Thirty-Nire Articles could
logically accept the great body OF Roman doe
trinc. and in the end convinced himself that
they could not accept anything else DE- Pusey
sought to establish the identity OF ihc Church
Of ENGLAND with Primitive Christianity and
Patristlc teaching. That ground he held until
the last, loyal to his CONVICTIONS but discon-
ccrtcd mt times 10y the fact that movement
so profound and intellectual in It's inception
should have been gradually narrow ed down o
supcrGuous indulgence III genutleXlons and
ecclesiastical costumes, and intermnablc
mibblings over the ornaments and Wbucs.
When all is said, and the ground OF the
movement, as he understood it, is completely
traycrscd Taclarianism must be regarded a.
progressive force in the English Church,
promoting "A revival of learning, piety and
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