whom it affected at Oxford, was in the highest degree a religious and romantic one.  The hold which it had on the leader of the movement made itself felt, though little was directly said.  To shrink from it was a mark of want of strength or intelligence, of an unmanly preference for English home life, of insensibility to the generous devotion and purity of the saints.  It cannot be doubted that at this period of the movement the power of this idea over imagination and conscience was one of the strongest forces in the direction of Rome.

Of all these ideas Mr. Ward’s articles in the British Critic were the vigorous and unintermittent exposition.  He spoke out, and without hesitation.  There was a perpetual contrast implied, when it was not forcibly insisted on, between all that had usually been esteemed highest in the moral temper of the English Church, always closely connected with home life and much variety of character, and the loftier and bolder but narrower standard of Roman piety.  And Mr. Ward was seconded in the British Critic by other writers, all fervid in the same cause, some able and eloquent.  The most distinguished of his allies was Mr. Oakeley, Fellow of Balliol and minister of Margaret Chapel in London.  Mr. Oakeley was, perhaps, the first to realise the capacities of the Anglican ritual for impressive devotional use, and his services, in spite of the disadvantages of the time, and also of his chapel, are still remembered by some as having realised for them, in a way never since surpassed, the secrets and the consolations of the worship of the Church.  Mr. Oakeley, without much learning, was master of a facile and elegant pen.  He was a man who followed a trusted leader with chivalrous boldness, and was not afraid of strengthening his statements.  Without Mr. Ward’s force and originality, his articles were more attractive reading.  His article on “Jewel” was more than anything else a landmark in the progress of Roman ideas.[118]

From the time of Mr. Ward’s connexion with the British Critic, its anti-Anglican articles had given rise to complaints which did not become less loud as time went on.  He was a troublesome contributor to his editor, Mr. T. Mozley, and he made the hair of many of his readers stand on end with his denunciations of things English and eulogies of things Roman.

My first troubles (writes Mr. Mozley) were with Oakeley and Ward.  I will not say that I hesitated much as to the truth of what they wrote, for in that matter I was inclined to go very far, at least in the way of toleration.  Yet it appeared to me quite impossible either that any great number of English Churchmen would ever go so far, or that the persons possessing authority in the Church would fail to protest, not to say more....  As to Ward I did but touch a filament or two in one of his monstrous cobwebs, and off he ran instantly to Newman to complain of my gratuitous impertinence.  Many years after I was forcibly reminded of him