Excerpt from The Anglican Revival

The object of the following pages is to give a brief sketch of that Revival in the English Church which has been a marked feature of the Victorian Era. In one sense, indeed, it dates from the reign of William IV., for it began with the Oxford Movement of 1833, but that movement was only just beginning to make itself generally felt when Queen Victoria ascended the throne, so the Revival may with the strictest propriety be said to belong to the Victorian period. The Anglican Revival and The Oxford Movement are by no means convertible terms, if they were, the present sketch would be super¿uous, for the Oxford movement has been handled by many pens, but there is not, so far as I am aware, any one single volume which gives a succinct account of the Anglican Revival. That revival owes a considerable part of its success to men who never came under the spell of the Oxford school, who carefully guarded themselves from being identified with it, and who, on occasions, were brought into collision with it. The Oxford Movement undoubtedly gave the first and most effective impulse to the revival, and its.

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