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OCCASIONAL PAPERS

SELECTED FROMTHE GUARDIAN, THE TIMES, AND THE SATURDAY REVIEW1846-1890

By the late
R.W. CHURCH, M.A., D.C.L.
Sometime Rector of Whatley, Dean of St. Paul's,
Honorary Fellow of Oriel College

In Two Vols.—VOL. II

London
Macmillan and Co., Limited
New York: The Macmillan Company

1897

First Edition February 1897Reprinted April 1897

I MR. GLADSTONE ON THE ROYAL SUPREMACY

II JOYCE ON COURTS OF SPIRITUAL APPEAL

III PRIVY COUNCIL JUDGMENTS

IV SIR JOHN COLERIDGE ON THE PURCHAS CASE

V MR. GLADSTONE'S LETTER ON THE ENGLISH CHURCH

VI DISENDOWMENT

VII THE NEW COURT

VIII MOZLEY'S BAMPTON LECTURES

IX ECCE HOMO

X THE AUTHOR OF "ROBERT ELSMERE" ON A NEW REFORMATION

XI RENAN'S "VIE DE JÉSUS"

XII RENAN'S "LES APÔTRES"

XIII RENAN'S HIBBERT LECTURES

XIV RENAN'S "SOUVENIRS D'ENFANCE"

XV LIFE OF FREDERICK ROBERTSON

XVI LIFE OF BARON BUNSEN

XVII COLERIDGE'S MEMOIR OF KEBLE

XVIII MAURICE'S THEOLOGICAL ESSAYS

XIX FREDERICK DENISON MAURICE

XX SIR RICHARD CHURCH

XXI DEATH OF BISHOP WILBERFORCE

XXII RETIREMENT OF THE PROVOST OF ORIEL

XXIII MARK PATTISON

XXIV PATTISON'S ESSAYS

XXV BISHOP FRAZER

XXVI NEWMAN'S "APOLOGIA"

XXVII DR. NEWMAN ON THE "EIRENICON"

XXVIII NEWMAN'S PAROCHIAL SERMONS

XXIX CARDINAL NEWMAN

XXX CARDINAL NEWMAN'S COURSE

XXXI CARDINAL NEWMAN'S NATURALNESS

XXXII LORD BLACHFORD

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MR. GLADSTONE ON THE ROYAL SUPREMACY[1]

  [1]
  Remarks on the Royal Supremacy, as it is Defined by Reason, History,
  and the Constitution. A Letter to the Lord Bishop of London, by
  the Right Hon. W.E. Gladstone, M.P. for the University of Oxford.
  Guardian, 10th July 1850.

Mr. Gladstone has not disappointed the confidence of those who havebelieved of him that when great occasions presented themselves, ofinterest to the Church, he would not be found wanting. A statesmanhas a right to reserve himself and bide his time, and in doubtfulcircumstances may fairly ask us to trust his discretion as to when ishis time. But there are critical seasons about whose seriousness therecan be no doubt. One of these is now passing over the English Church.And Mr. Gladstone has recognised it, and borne himself in it with amanliness, earnestness, and temper which justify those who have neverdespaired of his doing worthy service to the Church, with whose causehe so early identified himself.

The pamphlet before us, to which he has put his name, is the mostimportant, p

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