who has the right to wake the sleeper with the kisses of His mouth. Then the long-suspended action of the heart will begin to beat again; and the sleeper will open wide her arms to receive to her embrace once more her Lover and her Lord. Winter as well as summer, it is of faith to believe, does its own appointed work; be sure of this— that need there is of the biting frost as well as the summer breeze, but the stream which flows out of the living Rock, if for a while congealed, will soon break lose again, and its waters, when released, will once more make glad the City of our God. Amen. 8 LECTURE IV. THE RT. REV. WILLIAM E. McLAREN, D.D., D.C.L., Bishop of Chicago. THE OXFORD MOVEMENT AND THE CATHOLIC REVIVAL. FROM every point of view, whether sympathetic, hostile, or indifferent, the Catholic Revival will appear upon the pages of history as the distinguishing religious movement of the nineteenth century, great in itself and great in relation to its environment. It arose in the midst of one of those everrecurring periods when naturalistic forces rise in rebellion against the supernatural character of the Christian Church and Creeds. The deathly vapors of that miasm of unbelief which had its rise in the first French revolution were still hanging over England. It largely cleared the atmosphere, and has grown in power and pervasiveness, in direct and indirect influence, till the whole world has felt its vital strength. It has accentuated its principles with more distinctness, while, on one hand, the Protestant bodies have been learning to pro |