The sun., 1901-11-03

| Imrtyrnfne Articlee, tho Wnoie cycio "
Roman doctrines In the beginning o1
December. tho Hebdomadal Board an
nounced that II should submit to Convoca
ton three measures: First. the condemna
ton Of Mr.. Wards books; secondly, his
degradation. by depriving him OF his uni
versity degrees: and. thirdly, the institu-
ton OF a new test by which the Vice-Chan-
cellor should have power at any time 10
4 require a member OF the university, In
order to prove his orthodoxy. to subscribe
the Articles in the sense in which they
were both first published. and were now
imposed" penalty OF expulsion was
TO he attached to the refusal. thrice re-
peated. Of such subscription
The third proposal excited at once general
| displeasire and 1t was in the end with
/ drawn, its place being taken by q censure
| Of Newman's Tract No. 90. Such a meas
ure, brought forward as 1t was within ten
| days Of the meeting OF Convocation. aroused
the Indignation Of Newman's friends and
on Feb. 10. Is45 the Proctors announced
to the Hebdomadal Board their inten-
ton to veto the third proposal. When
Convocation met on Feb. IS In the Shell
donian Theatre and the censure Of New
mans tract was moved the two Proctors
rose and the senior, Guillemard, pronounced
the veto Nobis procuratoribus non pidcef'
words which except on the occasion
Of the Hampden conflict in 1895 no one
then living had heard officially pronounced.
An address signed by over five hundred
members of the university of widely diff
ferent shades of opinion was presented
to the Proctors thanking them for their
exercise OF the veto and Newman him.
self wrote privately to acknowledge their
service to him. No further attack on
Newman was attempted. The year passed
quietly on, although II was nov we'll known
that Newman's secession from the Church
of England could not be much longer de-
layed. In October, ls45. Church heard
from Newman that the decisive step was
taken. Newman stayed on at Lttlemore,
however, still seeing something OF some
of his friends. until February, ls4s, when
he finally left Oxford. Church was one
OF the friends, as Newman records In his
Apologize who went to bid him good-by
at the Observatory, where he passed his
last night at Oxford. After the parting
at the Observatory many years elapsed
during which no direct communication
by word or letter passed between them.
As distinctly Oxford enterprise the
Tractaran Movement was now at an end
and il was in London and the country at
large that the fresh development Of its
power, under Pusey and Keble as its chiefs,
was henceforward TO show itself. little
knot of friends, who had shared Newman's
friendship. and of whom Church was one,
started in Jan. IS46, weekly newspaper.
the Guardian, which. although without
any official link with the High Church
party, was TO uphold many OF the distinctive
principles of the Tractarian Movement.
To Church fell in great part the review
department of the paper IL was in the
Gudrdidn that he published the article
already referred to describing the method
and character Of Deverriers discovery
Of the planet Neptune, and also review
of Lyells 'Vestiges Of Creation,' which
called forth the commendation of Sir Rich
ard Owen. The greater part of ls47 was
spent by Church in travel abroad, princi-
pally in Greece. the lonian Islands and
Italy. Some ninety pages OF the book
before us are allotted TO the letters which
record his observations abroad. On his
return he resumed his customary life at
Oriel, reading widely on theological and
historical subjects, and writing regularly
for the Guardian and the Christian Remen-
brancer He now began 10 feel the need
Of more definite and permanent occupa-
ton than his life at Oxford offered. His
engagement in 1850 To Miss Bennett, the
daughter of Somersetshire squire and
parson. gave a fresh impulse to his wish
20 make for himself home. Az we have
said. he accepted in the autumn Of 1852
the living at Whatley. a small parish in
Somersetshire. was ordained priest in De-
oember Of the same year. and spent n soli-
tary six months in his parish before his
marriage. which took place in July. 1858.
~.
The nineteen years which Church passed
al Whatley in the care OF little village Of
200 teople were devoid Of incident. II We
except occasional Wits to the Continent
In 1888 he hoped 20 obtain the professorsh.p
Of eccles ical history at oxford, but
was disappointed, apparently because In
the old days Of the oxford Movement he
had been a great friend of Nowman's
Kingsley attack on Newman. by the way.
which drew from the latter his Apologize
awakened the afectionate loyalty Of New
mans old friends, and from 1884 TO New
mans death In lssO the cOrrespondenoe
between him aud Church wac resumed ON
the old footing of intimacy and fresioin
Ia January. ls0s, Church r"osiyed from
Nc Gladstone. then Prime Minister. the
uncr Of vacant tanOnry at W rosster.
TIA. pr-ferment was declined. but Ia July.
is7I. Church aco.pi.d from Mr. Gladstone
ia. onrr of tli. D-nn"ry ~ ~ Pauls Dur
ing tls ninet-on y'ars ~ bic tenure ~ thi-
pD-i h. newer rWrry-d from the task II
moving that ~ PHulr tath"dral ouuld
lurtif, ~ position a. tle central hou-" IT
Non-hlp flf the Church ~ Luglaud IA tein-
don Hith.ro D. had is-on niAsniho-nt
architectural monument, saiting ln dls
nih.d f.hosn Toe the discovery 80 a."
aal,itlo. wh.oh u mlsh sS-fotrs It.
main hulk had lain practically Idle. s1ospi
tot sfsroial uo,aHiuils suoh as a festival ~
ehanty ohldI"u. uf grnai puhllo funo.
lone. .,irl 40 th, iHlial - a hsfo A. al
Al.ei ttnias usrf thr l"nsth aId bf.adih
- ts ,sai area ulid isassd AAd unssuou
piai HY,sulng riFl.fs-it fuains-i 81 lAfsr.
lis dahy sHfAl,sf had alsays l.-nn Lldd.n
asa, in tis ,i,.f i-.nind tis tliri utssn
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