The Latest Phase of the Oxford Movement (Classic Reprint)

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The present condition of that party is the subject of this slight sketch. Those who listen to me will, I am sure, be indulgent, for they will see that the difficulties that face anyone venturesome enough to attempt even an outline of the latest phase of the Oxford Movement are by no means slight. It is quite true that I feel more at home in dealing with the High Church Party than with, say, the Primitive Methodists: that is only what may be expected in the case of one who was an enthusiastic advanced Anglican of the pro Roman section for some years. It is also true that I have had good Opportunities for seeing High Anglicanism at work, for my duty as a peripatetic preacher for a Church Society took me into some hundred and twenty parishes (nearly 'all worked on lines more or less High) in every part of England except the north. I have debated the prospects of High Churchism with scores of Anglicans, cleric and lay, some Of my correspondents being in the United States, Australia, and South Africa. I used to read everything I could find that bore on the problem.

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