. 'Twixt the old and the new; a study in the life and times of John Henry, Cardinal Newman. and issue of his doctrines, Holinessbefore peace, and Growth the only evidence oflife. Joseph Milner (1744-97) was head master ofHull Grammar School, and afternoon lecturer atthe Parish Church. In 1770 he becdme an Evan-gelical as the result of reading Hookers sermon onJustification, and set to work upon his ChurchHistory, which contends with Scotts Commentaryfor the first place among the Evangelical literatureof the eighteenth century. His aim was to writea history of the good which Christianity had ac
. 'Twixt the old and the new; a study in the life and times of John Henry, Cardinal Newman. and issue of his doctrines, Holinessbefore peace, and Growth the only evidence oflife. Joseph Milner (1744-97) was head master ofHull Grammar School, and afternoon lecturer atthe Parish Church. In 1770 he becdme an Evan-gelical as the result of reading Hookers sermon onJustification, and set to work upon his ChurchHistory, which contends with Scotts Commentaryfor the first place among the Evangelical literatureof the eighteenth century. His aim was to writea history of the good which Christianity had accom-plished and to set forth the blessed effects whichChristianity had produced in all, even the darkest,ages. Milner expressly declared his intention oftouching but slightly upon the heresies and disputeswhich were the principal subjects dealt with bymost Church historians. His history, in fact, wasto be a history of real, not nominal. Christians. Helived to carry his work from the Apostles to themiddle of the thirteenth century. His brother,Isaac Milner (1751-1820), published two more. Rev. Thomas the Orii^iiial FiiDii/y Iicture. To face p. 70. JOHN HENRY NEWMAN 71 volumes on the same plan and in part from manu-scripts Joseph Milner had left behind. Isaac Milnerbecame President of Queens College, Cambridge,in 1788, where together with Charles Simeon herendered yeoman service to the Evangelical history turned the attention of English readersto the almost forgotten writings of the early Fathers,and in Newmans case it marked the birth of thatlove of patristic literature which exercised a strongdetermining influence upon his religious Newton (1725-1807), the predecessor ofThomas Scott as curate of Olney, and afterwards{1779) rector of St. Mary, Woolnoth, is perhaps bestknown to us as the author of many of our favouritehymns. Some are included in our Hymns Ancientand Modern: Approach my soul the mercy seat, How sweet the name of Jesus soimds,
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