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hoods, than the Evangelical section of the Church ; it makes 
less of doctrine and much more of ritual; it is great in 
services and in public demonstrations ; it cultivates attractive 
music, and makes the Church the theatre of much symbolism 
and much decoration ; its donations are most generous and 
its charities profuse. 
Thus equipped the Anglican High Church has entered into 
the fellowship of revivals, and has completed the circle for 
England of x’eligious awakening. The whole land is now full 
of religious movement — every county, every town, of whatever 
class, every section of society. Church and Dissent, High 
Church and Low Church, vio with each other in revival 
services and in homely mission work. In all this revived 
energy and activity there are not wanting features which even 
Christians, each from his own point of view, cannot but regard 
with doubt and even fear ; but surely also there is much on 
all sides in which Christians of a catholic spirit cannot but 
rejoice. For myself, I would say with St. Paul, “ By all means 
Christ is preached, and therein 1 do rejoice, yea, and will re- 
joice.” To many Christians — as to myself — the characteristic 
tenets of High Church Anglicanism seem to savour of serious 
and oven dangerous error, while extreme Ritualism is regarded 
by such Christians with a feeling not only of dislike, but of 
alarm. Yet surely no Evangelical Protestant of a catholic 
spirit, however strong in his Protestant and Evangelical con- 
victions, can fail to recognize much good in a party which 
numbers among its leading men such preachers as Canon 
Liddon, and such working clergy as the newly-appointed 
Bishop of Lichfield. There is large common ground between 
such men and earnest Evangelicals. Whatever their High 
Anglicanism may mean, whatever it may imply from which 
an Evangelical Low Churchman or a Nonconformist is bound 
strongly to dissent, it is certain that Evangelical doctrine forms 
the main staple in the ordinary public ministrations of such 
High Churchmen as I have named. Therefore, even those 
who utterly dread all hierarchical claims, especially as touching 
confession, penance, and the sacraments, may, notwithstand- 
ing, thank Cod for such men, and for such revival work as 
that with which they are identified. So, on the other hand, 
I would fain hope that all large-hearted and truly cultivated 
High Churchmen cannot but rejoice in the labours and 
influence of such men as Dr. Vaughan and Dean Howson, 
however they may differ from them as to points of great 
importance. Nor would I allow myself to doubt that, 
although to many Churchmen Dissent as such may be an 
offence, — Nonconformity, even in the mildest form of Metho- 
