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in tliis slight sketch I have to notice is that which began in 
Oxford rather more than forty years ago. Cambridge had 
been the nurse, at least, if not the parent — had for nearly 
half a century been the acknowledged centre — of the Low 
Church Evangelical revival in the Church of England. Oxford 
was to be the parent of revived Anglican High Church zeal 
and devotion. It cannot, indeed, I suppose, be doubted that 
in a sense the Oxford revival was the result, humanly speak- 
ing, of the Evangelical movement during the half-century 
preceding. It was not merely in great part a reaction from 
that movement, it was in part a direct fruit of it ; at least 
in this sense, that some of the leading souls in the Oxford 
movement were first quickened into spiritual life under Evan- 
gelical doctrines and in Evangelical homes. Dr. Newman, in 
his “ Apologia/' has told us the facts as to himself, and he 
has never disowned or spoken slightingly of his “ conversion " 
whilst still under what are currently described as Evangelical 
influences. Similarly, we learn from Canon Liddon's sketch 
of the life of the late Bishop of Salisbury, Dr. Hamilton, that 
his conversion took place whilst he was under Evangelical 
Low Church influences. These instances occur to my memory 
as I am writing. It is likely that if I were to search I should 
find others of the same kind ; but these two are enough 'to 
cite for my purpose. Dr. Newman was in its earlier stage 
the arch-leader of the High Church revival. Bishop Hamilton 
was, to the end of his life, one of its brightest and most 
reverend names. How the movement has advanoed during 
the last forty years I havo neither need nor wish to describe 
in this sketch. 
But I wish to point out how these various movements or 
agencies of which I have been speaking have combined, in a 
very remarkable manner, to cover the whole ground of English 
society, and to bring Christianity to bear upon every field, 
every province, every class. The Methodism of Wesley took 
hold of colliers, miners, ironworkers, handloom weavers (both 
in the west and north), upland farmers, northern dalesmen, 
and some of the larger towns in England, especially where 
there were manufactures, or an independent shop-keeping 
middle class. Whitefield's labours stirred up a considerable 
number of Dissenting congregations, and in conjunction 
with the “ Countess ” he gained for his Evangelical doctrines 
a good lodgment in the leading watering-places of England. 
Alike at Bath, at tho Ilotwells at Tunbridge W ells, and at 
Spafiolds, Whitefield and her ladyship — one or both — left 
influential congregations behind thorn. Tho Low Church 
Evangelical movement in the Church of England developed 
