THE OXFORP (7 7779 T7FORMATION.
[G00D WORDS, 1881.)
LETTER I.
THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND FIFTY YEARS AGO,
7 DEAR ——, You remind me of a promise
which I have left too long unfulfilled. We
had been looking over some of your old family
papers, and we had found among them a copy of the
once famous Tract 90, scored over with pencil marks
and interjections. "The rocket which had flamed
across the sky was now a burnt-out case, It was
hard to believe that the whole mind of England
could have been so agitated by expressions and ideas
which had since become so familiar. We were made
to feel how times had changed in the last forty
years; we had been travelling on a spiritual railroad,
1 These letters were originally
published before the appcarance
nf Mr. Mozley’s Reminiscences of
'he Oxford Movement. I have not
‚und it necessary to make any
alterrtions.