Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . ithas a right to claim thehonour of training and in-spiring those uncanonizedyet true saints—Wilber-force, Clarkson, and JohnHoward. Lastly, in the personsof such men as BishopWilson, of Sodor andMan; Bishop Jebb, ofLimerick; and AlexanderKnox, the High Churchmovement of the nineteenth century had its forerunners, alink between the fervent but irreijular Sacramentalism ofJohn Wesley and the Oxford Tractarian
Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . ithas a right to claim thehonour of training and in-spiring those uncanonizedyet true saints—Wilber-force, Clarkson, and JohnHoward. Lastly, in the personsof such men as BishopWilson, of Sodor andMan; Bishop Jebb, ofLimerick; and AlexanderKnox, the High Churchmovement of the nineteenth century had its forerunners, alink between the fervent but irreijular Sacramentalism ofJohn Wesley and the Oxford Tractarians of 1833-45. Similarly, in the foundation of the National Society forthe Education of the Poor in 1811 we have the first definitestep towards the present system of Church schools. But atthe close of this period (1815) the Church as an institutionwas scarcely ever upheld on higher ground than that ofBishop Porteous in his last charge— An ancient and vener-able estahlish7nent, constructed by some of the wisest, mostpious, and most eminent men of any period. The moreactive and aggressive thought among the Churchmen of thistime now usually took the form of a Calvinism so rigid and. ROBERT RAIKES. (After Druramond.) THE ESTABLISHED CHURCH, 1715-1815. 559 SO morbid, so complacent and often so bitter as to show a Calvinism,curious contrast to the practical excellence of life Avhich itlargely succeeded in producing. Thus Simeon, towards the endof his life, declared himself so corrupt that he could only wonderat being still kept out of hell. Henry Venn congratulates hisson on the opposition of the Huntingtonians, for their hatred
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