The British nation a history / by George MWrong . ganda. In 1841Newman issued Tract 90, in whichhe tried to reconcile the Thirty-nine Articles of the Church ofEngland with the decrees of theCouncil of Trent. The Tracta-rians found Oxford against few years later Newman joinedthe Church of Eome, to becomeultimately a cardinal, and not longafter Archdeacon Manning (avIioalso became a cardinal), Archdea-con Wilberforce, and other promi-nent xglicans, took the samecourse and aroused great alarm among Protestants. But Pusey and Keble clung to theChurch of England, and in the end attained very
The British nation a history / by George MWrong . ganda. In 1841Newman issued Tract 90, in whichhe tried to reconcile the Thirty-nine Articles of the Church ofEngland with the decrees of theCouncil of Trent. The Tracta-rians found Oxford against few years later Newman joinedthe Church of Eome, to becomeultimately a cardinal, and not longafter Archdeacon Manning (avIioalso became a cardinal), Archdea-con Wilberforce, and other promi-nent xglicans, took the samecourse and aroused great alarm among Protestants. But Pusey and Keble clung to theChurch of England, and in the end attained very wideinfluence* Tractarianism would have revived the stricterdiscipline of the mediaeval Church and increased thepower of the clergy. In this it ran counter to the spiritof the time. The formalism of the Tractarians and theirdevotion to the externals of religion led Dr. Arnold, thefamous head-master of Rugby, to denounce them as idola-ters. The Broad Church party attacked ecclesiasticalnarrowness, and assailed especially the barriers which, by. John Henry Newman,Cardinal (1801-1890). 554 THE BRITISH NATION requiring undergraduates to sign the Thirty-nine Articles,made Oxford and Cambridge Churcli of England 1854, after searching inquiry by a Eoyal Commission,these tests were at last removed. It had long been appar-ent that reform in the distribution of the Churchs reve-nues was necessary. The Bishop of Durham had £19,000a year, but others of the bishops only £2,000 or £3,000;populous new i^arishes with many hard-worked clergywere without endowment, while some of the cathedralfoundations had many highly paid officials with few du-ties. The year 1836 saw the establishment by Parliamentof a body of Ecclesiastical Commissioners, who have sinceused their great powers in removing some of these failure of the Tractarians to make their view of theChurchs authority felt by the masses of the nation ap-i peared in 1837, when, in spite of their protests, divorce
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