The Right Honourable William Ewart Gladstone
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ISBN13: 9780217368667
Paperback|9780217368667
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III Religious opinions?Book on Church and State?Marriage?Becomes Vice-President of the Board of Trade?Admitted to the Cabinet? Resigns. This year?1838?claims special note in a record of Mr. Gladstone's life, because it witnessed the appearance of his famous work on ' The State in its Relations with the Church.' We have seen that he left Oxford before the beginning of that Catholic revival which has transfigured both the inner spirit and the outward aspect of the Church of England. But the revival was now in full strength. The astonishing genius of Mr. Newman had begun to operate. The ' Tracts for the Times' were saturating England with new influences. The passionate, almost despairing, appeal of half-a-dozen gifted and holy men at Oxford had awoke a response in every corner of the kingdom. ' We did, ' they said, ' but light a beacon fire on the summit of a lonely hill: and now we are amazed to find the firmament on every side red with the light of some responsive flame.' The Catholic revival now counted no more enthusiastic or more valuable disciple than the young member for Newark. The influence of the revival had reached him through his friendships, notably with Mr. James Hope, Fellow of Merton, afterwards Mr. Hope-Scott, Q.C., and with the Rev. H. E. Manning, now Cardinal-Archbishop. Cardinal Newman, organizing the crusade and reckoning up his actual and possible allies, writes on October 2, 1833: 'As to Gladstone, perhaps it would be wrong to ask a young man so to commit himself.' But on November 13, he records: ' The Duke of Newcastle has joined us .... Gladstone, andc. I suppose these names must not be mentioned.' Naturally and profoundly religious, and now steeped in the Catholic theology, Mr. Gladstone conceived that those who professed the warmest reg...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217368667 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217368662 |
| Weight | 0.68 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.47 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 204 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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