Contested Select Preachership at Oxford Stirs Tory Unity
A Victorian era article praises local Tory support for appointing Dean Stanley as Oxford select preacher while denouncing Liberal Oxford Liberals. It cites letters from Norwich and Burgon, condemns Liberal ambition at Oxford, and urges Catholic Conservatives to unite with Evangelicals to defend church independence and oppose Latitudinarian influence. It notes upcoming Westminster Convocation polling and calls for bold action by Dr Bright and others. The piece ends urging steadfast devotion to God’s Truth before all else.
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Dean Stanley
Oxford
Law, Order
Colenso
Voysey
Temple
Stanley
Bristow-Wilson
Jowett
Dean of Norwich
Burgon
Dean Liddell
Osford
Burrows
New York
England
Westminster
Worcester
C. P. Golightly
Hathaway
St. Ebbes
Bishop Trower
Messrs
Woolecombe
Turner
Bramley
Pusey
Greenwich
Dr. Bright
Mr. Disraeli
Christ Church
Cambridge
Carlisle
Messrs. Earle
Fowler
Convocation
Windsor
Balmoral
George the Second
Gloucester
Bristol
O. Malan
Broadwindsor
London
D. Nutt
Malan
Rans
Watermand
Christ
Westminster Abbey
Vance Smith
J. Voysey
Mr. Bu
Oriel
Times
Goulburn
Agnis
House of Peers
Oxford Convocation
Metropolis
St. Mary-the-Virgin’s Church
Professor Whewell
University of Cambridge
Convocation and the British Church Unity Debate
In a dense review, the piece argues Convocation's role as guardian of the law divine and spiritual learning, detailing the estate balance between spirituality and temporality, and questions whether Convocation should be extinguished amid tensions over Dean Stanley and University sermons. It cites Anglican authorities and presses for preserving clerical authority against rationalist pressure.
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England
Barons and Commons
Commons
Canterbury
York
National Synod
Privy Council Committee
Court of Arches
Convocation
Real
Pars Imperans
Pars
Fideles
The Grace of the Ministry Considered as a Divine Gift
A 19th century review praises a ponderous volume on holy orders, stressing the need for clergymen to grasp grace and power in ordination. The editor Rev William Denton updates the work after the author’s death, noting modest publication and the editor’s credentials as assurance.
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Hooker
Land
Jeremy Taylor
Beveridge
Barrow
Pearson
Andrewes
Dodswell
Davison
Blomfield
Keble
Church
Bennett
Moberly
Newman
Manning
Christ’s Church
William Derton
Oxon
London
Bell and Daldy
William Denton
Select Preacher Appointment Sparks Oxford Controversy
In a heated exchange at Oxford, Dr. Liddell and Rev. Burgon clash over Dean Stanley’s nomination as Select Preacher. Burgon vows broad opposition by Convocation non residents, while Liddell plans to publish the correspondence detailing the dispute and alleged censure.
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Liddell
John Burgon
Dean Stanley
Burgon
Convocation
Exeter
Bishop Temple
The Art Treasures of the Lambeth Library Book
S W Kershaw M A prepares a complete catalogue of illuminated and illustrated manuscripts in the Archiepiscopal Library. The work will describe and catalogue by art schools and include eight stone drawings by J A Burt, highlighting Lambeth’s Anglo Irish early French English and German manuscripts.
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Lambeth Library
S. W. Kershaws
Pickering
J. A. Burt
Lambeth
Kershaw
Canterbury
Institute of British Architects
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St. Peter
St. John
Jesus Christ
Moberley
G. D. W. Ommaney
Bath and Wells
Parkers
Herbert Spencer
J. M. Capes
A. M. Fairbairn
John Dowden
C. E. Maurice
M. Nadaud
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