Baptismal Controversy, a Review of the, 277. Bath and Wells (Bishop of) and Mr. Lingen, 167.
Biblical Psychology, 40.
Bicentenary, the: 83, the Bicentenary and the Wesleyan Conference, &c. 119. Bigotry, 36.
Biography: Bacon (Lord), 232. Canning (Earl), 68. Disraeli (Right Hon. Benja- min), 159. Frederick the Great, 89. Ga- ribaldi, 298. Irving (Edward), 90. Père Lacordaire, 285. Mackenzie (Bi- shop), 119. Macaulay (Lord), 233. Pitt (Right Hon. William), 39. Pugin (A. N. Welby), 237. Schleiermachier, 143. Wolff (Dr. Joseph), 16.
Bishop of Durham, the, and the late Arch- deacon of Durham, 313.
Bishop of Natal, the, and the Word of
Bishopric of Honolulu, 129. Blockade, Mr. Cobden on, 303.
Body-snatchers, 86.
ment in Synod, 20. Lay Element in America, 178. Meeting at Wycombe, the, 299. Mozley's Review of the Baptismal Controversy, 277. National Catholicity, 216. Northern Convocation, 180. Perry's History of the Church of England, 231. Pews and Free Sittings, 176. Position of the Established Church in the Manufac-
turing Districts, 22. Practical Politics, 105. Primacy, the, 201. Review of Position, 1. Rise of the Latitudinarian School, 73. Royal Supremacy the True Defence of the Liberties of the Church, 29. Steuart (Mr.), 214. Suffragan Bi- shops, 180, 218. Way of Unity, 71, 171, 218. Whigs and the Church of England, 62. Zambesi Mission, 162. Civil War in America, the, 6. Clergy Clergy Relief Bill, 8.
lief and Burial Bills, 65. Influence of the Clergy, 124. Our Want of Clergy, 68. Poverty of the Clergy, 33. Clough (Arthur Hugh), Poems by, 240. Cobden (Mr.), on Blockade, 303. Coleridge (Mr.) and the "Liberals " of Exe-
Colliers, Life amongst the, 93.
Colonies: Canada, 164. England and her Colonies, 259. India, 165. Earl Can- ning's Administration of, 137. Commercial Travellers, 223.
Committee of Council on Education and their Codes, 25.
Committee of the National Society, the, 118. Comprehension, 275.
Concerning some of the Poisons of the Day and Night, 321.
Confederate States, Recognition of the, 312. Conscience Clause, the, 252. Constitutionalism in Prussia, 310. Convocation the Northern Convocation, 180. Convocation, 18. Convocation in Ireland, 37.
Brodie (Sir Benjamin), Psycological Inqui- Correspondence of Napoleon I., 193. ries, 96.
Browning (Elizabeth Barrett), Last Poems
Canning (Earl), 68. His Administration of India, 157.
Carlyle (Thomas), History of Frederick II. of Prussia, 89. Cathedral Music, 265. Catholicity, National, 216.
Causes which produced the Low Religious Tone of the Eighteenth Century, 222. Child-murder, 220.
Chorley's (H. F.) Thirty Years' Musical Recollections, 144. Church: Bishop of Bath and Wells and Mr. Lingen, 167. Bishop Mackenzie, 119. Bishopric of Honolulu, 129. Bishop of Natal and the Word of God, 297. Bishop of Durham and the late Archdeacon of Durham, 313. Church-rate Division, 5. Church in Africa, 316. Church and State in America, 31. Church Congress at Ox- ford, 115. Church Expansion and Litur- gical Revision Association, 131. Church Schools, the "Conscience Clause" and the Charity Commissioners, 211. Church Mu- sic, 265. Church and the Churches, 92. Church Schools, 211. Comprehension, 257. Convocation, 18. Convocation in Ireland, 37. Court of Final Ecclesiastical Appeal, 74. Crown Patronage, 313. Di- lapidations, 81. Ecclesia Vindicata, 333. Increase of the Episcopate, 128. Judg- ment in the Court of Arches, 107. Judg-
Country Village Schools, 127. Court of Final Ecclesiastical Appeal, 74. Creation in Plan and in Progress, 191. Cricket, 224.
Crown Patronage, 313. Cumming (Dr.), The Millenial Rest, 46.
DEMOCRACY, the Ebb-tide of, 12. Dickensism, 229. Dilapidations, 81.
Disraeli (Right Hon. Benjamin), 159. Distress in the North, 155.
Dogma, the New, 209.
Döllinger (Dr.), The Church and the Churches, 92.
Durham, the University of, 305. Durham, Bishop of, and the late Arch- deacon of, 313.
Ebb-tide of Democracy, the, 12. Ecclesia Vindicata, 333. Education: Bishop of Bath and Wells and Mr. Lingen, 167. Church Schools, 211. Committee of Council on Education and their Codes, 25. Committee of the Na- tional Society, 118. Country Village Schools, 127. Greek and Latin, 249. The Latest Discovery, 309. National Society and the Conscience Clause, 252. Rugby School and Balliol College, 17. The New Dogma, 209. The University of Durham, 305.
England and her Colonies, 259. Episcopate, Increase of the, 128. Estcourt (Right Hon. T. H. Sotheron), 64. Exeter "Liberals" and Mr. Coleridge, 215. Exhibition, the International of 1862, 26.
"For Better for Worse," 85. Foreign: Africa, the Church in, 316. Ame- rica: Church and State in America, 31. Civil War in America, 6, 169, 251. Lay Element in America, 178. Political Par- ties in America, 261. Recognition of the Confederate States, 312. The South Vin- dicated, 284. Austria and Hungary, 112. Denmark the Scandinavian Alliance, 205. Earl Russell and Prince Gortschakoff, 309. Eastern Asia, 212. France, Ten Years of Imperialism in, 239. Germany, the Unification of,, 114. Greece, 301. Hawaii, 186. Honolulu, the Bishopric of, 129. Mexico, 66. Prussia, Constitution- alism in, 310. Venetian Diplomacy, 336. Zambesi Mission, 162.
France, Ten Years of Imperialism in, 239.
KINGLEYISM, 136.
Kirche und Kirchen, 235.
LATEST Discovery, the, 309.
Latitudinarian School, Rise of the, 73. Lay Element in America, the, 178. Le Père Lacordaire, 285.
Les Misérables, 286.
Lewis (Sir G. C.), the Astronomy of the Ancients, 140, 189.
"Liberal" Party, the Great, 142. "Liberalism" as a Creed, 13. Liberation Society (the) and the Privy Coun- cillor, 263.
Life amongst the Colliers, 93. Lingen (Mr.), and the Bishop of Bath and Wells, 167.
Lords, the House of, 202.
Lost Characters of English "Liberalism," the, 258.
MACAULAY (Lord), the Public Life of, 233. Mackenzie (Bishop), 119.
Man, the Three-fold Nature of, 135.
National Catholicity, 216.
National Society: the, 59. The Committee of, 118.
New Dogma, the, 209. Non-Intervention, 10. Northcote (Sir Stafford, M. P.), Twenty Years of Financial Policy, 187. Northern Convocation, the, 180. Novels, Tales, Romances, &c. :— Briscoe (Mrs.), A Woman's Life, 48. Bulwer (Sir E. L.), A Strange Story, 278; Col- lected Works, 278. Dickens (Charles), Sketches by Boz, 229; Dombey and Son, 229; Great Expectations, 229; Collected Works, 229. Hall (Mrs. S. C.), Can Wrong be Wright? 48. Hugo (Victor), Les Misérables, 286. Kingsley (Professor Charles), Hypatia, 136; Two Years Ago, 136. Kingsley (Henry), Ravenshoe, 136. Scott (Lady), The Dream of a Life, 48. Stewart (Mrs.), The Valley of the Maude, 48. Thackeray (W. M.), Philip on his Way Through the World, 183; Penden- nis, 183; Collected Works, 183; Wood (Mrs. Henry), The Channings, 48.
OLIPHANT (Mrs.), Life of Edward Irving,
On the Evidence for the Existence of Infi- delity, 24.
Our Want of Clergy, 68.
Oxford, the Church Congress at, 115.
PARTY, the Use and Abuse of, 254. Patterson (R. H.), Essays in History and Art, 281.
Perry (Rev. G.), History of the Church of England, 231.
Pews and Free Sittings, 176.
Pitt (Right Hon. W.), Life of, by Earl Stanhope, 39.
Poetry: Arthur Hugh Clough's Poems, 240. Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Last Poems, 44. Thomas Hood's Works, 282. Tupperism, 327.
Poisons of the Day and Night, 321. Political Parties: 153. In America, 261. House of Lords, 202.
Politics: The Ballot, 61. Canning (Earl), Administration of India, 157. The Church Rate Division, 5. The Clergy Relief Bill, 8. The Clergy Relief and Burial Bills, 65. Mr. Cobden on Blockade, 303. Mr. Coleridge and the "Liberals" of Exeter, 215. Disraeli (Right Hon. B.), 159. The Ebb-tide of Democracy, 12. Estcourt (Right Hon. S.), 64. Garibaldi, 298. The Great" Liberal" Party, 142. "Liberalism" as a Creed, 13. The lost Characters of English Liberalism, 258. Meeting at Wycombe, the, 299. Non-
intervention, 10. Political Parties-House of Lords, 202. Political Parties in Ame- rica, 261. Political Parties, 153. Prac- tical Politics, 105. The Privy Councillor and the Liberation Society, 263. Retrench- ment, 4. Russell (Earl), 57. Russell (Earl) and Prince Gortschakoff, 309. The Scandinavian Alliance, 205. The Session of 1862, 109. Stewart (Mr.), 214. Twenty Years of Financial Policy, 187. The Use and Abuse of Party, 254. The Whigs and the Church of England, 62. Popular Amusements, 217.
Populous Places, Mission-houses in, 224. Position of the Established Church in the Manufacturing Districts, 22. Poverty of the Clergy, the, 33. Practical Politics, 105. Practical Science, 319. Primacy, the, 201.
Privy Councillor and the Liberation Society, the, 263.
Prussia Constitutionalism in, 310. Public Life of Lord Macaulay, the, 233. Pugin (A. N. Welby), Recollections of,
RAMSAY (Dean) on the Christian Life, 45. Reason v. Conscience: in the Literate or Scholar, 274. II. The Poet, 324. Recent Fiction, 48.
Recent Scottish Synod, the, 256. Recognition of the Confederate States, 312. Regatta, the Henley, 129. Religion: Brotherhoods, 175. Causes which produced the Low Religious Tone of the Eighteenth Century, 222. Irish Revival- ism, 266. Monastic Life, 94. Recent Scottish Synod, the, 256. Religious Sta- tistics of Scotland, 225. Sisterhoods, 139, 314. Westleyan Conference, Methodists, the Congregationalists, the Liberation So- ciety, and the Bicentenary, 119. Religious Statistics of Scotland, 225. Relief of Distress in the North, 155. Respite and Reprieve, 323. Retrenchment, 4.
Review of Position, 1. Review of the Baptismal Controversy, 277. Reviews Arnold (Rev. F.), Public Life of Lord Macaulay, 233. Auckland (Lord), Journal and Correspondence, 42. Baschet (Armand), La Diplomatie Vénétienne, 336. Biblical Psychology, 40. Brodie (Sir B.), Psychological Inquiries, 96. Browning (Elizabeth Barrett), Last Poems, 44. Bul- werism, 278. Carlyle (Thomas), History of Frederick II. of Prussia, 89. Challis (Rev. J.), Creation in Plan and in Pro- gress, 191. Chorley (Henry F.), Thirty Years' Musical Recollections, 144. Church Expansion and Liturgical Revision As- sociation, 131. Clough (Arthur Hugh), Poems, 240. Correspondence of Napo- leon I, 193. Cumming (Dr.), Millen- nial Rest, 46. Dickensism, 229. Dixon (W. Hepworth), Personal History of Lord Bacon, 232. Döllinger's Church and the Churches, 92. Kirche und Kirchen, 235. Ferrey (Benjamin), Recollections of A. Ñ. Welby Pugin, 237. Goodman (Marga- ret), Experiences of an English Sister of Mercy, 139. Guizot (M.), Embassy to the Court of St. James's, 185. Hood (Tho- mas), The Works of, edited by his Son, 282. Hopkins (Manley), Hawaii, 186. Hugo (Victor), Les Misérables, 286. Joyce (Rev. J. W.), Ecclesia Vindicata, 333- Kingsleyism, 136. Lewis (Sir G. C.), Astronomy of the Ancients, 140, 189. Life amongst the Colliers, 93. Lucas (Samuel), Secularia, 95. Mazzaroth, or the Constellations, 191. Mendelssohn's Letters, 41. Montalembert (Le Comte), Le Père Lacordaire, 285. The Monks of the West, 94. Mozley (Rev. J. B.), Review of the Baptismal Controversy, 277. Northcote (Sir Stafford), Twenty Years of Financial Policy, 187. Oliphant (Mrs.), Life of Edward Irving, 90. Patterson (R. H.), Essays in History and Art, 281. Perry (Rev. G.), History of the Church of England, 231. Present Position of the "Liberal" Party (by the author of Miriam
May and Crispin Ken), 142. Ramsey (Dean), On the Christian Life, 45. Re- cent Fiction, 48. Schleiermachier, 143. Sewell (Miss), Rome, Florence, and Turin, 88. Spedding (F.), Letters and Life of Lord Bacon, 232. Stanhope (Earl), Life of the Right Hon. William Pitt, 39. Ten Years of Imperialism in France, 239. Thackerayism, 183. Theories of the Pro- pagation of Mankind, 330. The Three- fold Nature of Man, 135. Tupperism, Williams (the Hon. James), The South Vindicated, 284.
Rise of the Latitudinarian School, the, 73- Royal Academy, Annual Exhibition of the, 78.
Royal Supremacy, the True Defence of the Liberties of the Church, 29.
Rugby School and Balliol College, 17. Russell (Earl), 57.
Russell (Earl) and Prince Gortschakoff, 309.
T is a faint heart which does not look cheerfully and hopefully upon the future of the National Church of England. It is, on the other hand, a poorly informed or selfcomplacent judgment which does not measure the depth and the amount of the accumulating responsibilities of her clergy and her people. It is a slothful or a self-indulgent life which does not act steadily upon the sense of what those responsibilities are. It is wilful blindness not to note the weaker points of the position, and especially the danger from within. For all danger to a Church is, in its origin and its power, from within. The fortunes of a falling Church are a continuous suicide. All warning and all experience, from the days of the Seven Churches of Asia till now, put this fact upon record. It makes no difference here whether a Church be national or not national: whether it be, that is, as the Church of England, recognized and established by the common and the statute law of the land as an integral part of the constitution, or whether it exist in a country as one religious body out of many, but with no peculiar and distinctive rights and privileges by custom and by law. There is no difference in respect of the source of danger. The thing which weakens or finally destroys is, in kind, the same in both cases. But there is a difference in degree: because, as the nationality of a Church is a gift superadded to its existence, and a very excellent gift, so the suicide in this case is the worse and the more thankless.
There is no present fear for the national position of the Church of England. There is no future fear, except under circumstances of intrinsic unworthiness which there is no ground to anticipate, and of changes in the framework and order of our social relations greater than it is easy to foresee. It is much to be able to say this, but it is not enough: it is after all only negative encouragement. To be able to take the position of the Church out of the category of things for which we fear is but a poor result and cannot satisfy the conditions of the gift. The Church need not fear for its position, and yet may be standing still. But what is required is that it do not stand still; that it advance continually in promoting the well-being of all sorts and conditions
of men. Now encouragement is not lacking even in this aspect of the case. Of all forms of Christianity, and of all ecclesiastical positions, the form and position of the National Church of England are those which may be looked to most reasonably and most hopefully to do the work which every Church has in charge to do. This is not an assumption; it rests upon facts; not only upon the facts of her primitive faith and apostolic order, but upon those also of her actual religious life; not only upon her amity and close conjunction with the State, but upon her earnest endeavour to discharge her office and execute her trust as the Church of all English people. The Church, that is, clergy and people, are beginning to rise more and more to the special exigencies of the position. There is the building and the restoring of churches within the last thirty years, a thing of perhaps unexampled extent; the clearing away of the square pews, and, both by arrangement of space and multiplication of services, the caring for the free and frequent worship of the people. There are many things, part of that worship, which tell of a truer and larger perception of privileges and duties. There is the building and the maintaining of schools with liberal assistance from the State. There is the more clerical life of the clergy, not as though many things in which they do not take part so much as heretofore are not lawful and innocent, but because their time and energies are not more than sufficient for their special work. There is the devotion of the lay life of men and women, and especially of women, to works of charity. There is the partial revival of the functions of the Church in Synod, attended with proof manifold that differences in theology and harshness of judgment between those who differ need not co-exist. And it is not only that men are not so divided as heretofore; they are acting in concert upon the basis of Church and State. Upon this basis we may all unite, but there is no other at once broad enough and sound enough. There is the drawing together and the better mutual understanding of clergy and laity. All these things are beginning to tell powerfully on our national condition.
But with all this there is no room for saying that the position is good; good as measured by what it ought to be and may be. There are many things still, some of them of long standing, which check and embarrass, in one degree or another, the development of the gifts and the power of the National Church; and, however unpalatable the ac
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