Dr. Pusey was indeed a man of “large designs.”  The vision rose before him of a revived and instructed Church, earnest in purpose and strict in life, and of a great Christian University roused and quickened to a sense of its powers and responsibilities.  He thought of the enormous advantages offered by its magnificent foundations for serious study and the production of works for which time and deep learning and continuous labour were essential.  Such works, in the hands of single-minded students, living lives of simplicity and hard toil, had in the case of the Portroyalists, the Oratorians, and above all, the Benedictines of St. Maur, splendidly redeemed the Church of France, in otherwise evil days, from the reproach of idleness and self-indulgence.  He found under his hand men who had in them something of the making of students; and he hoped to see college fellowships filled more and more by such men, and the life of a college fellow more and more recognised as that of a man to whom learning, and especially sacred learning, was his call and sufficient object, as pastoral or educational work might be the call of others.  Where fellowships were not to be had, he encouraged such men to stay up in Oxford; he took them into his own house; later, he tried a kind of hall to receive them.  And by way of beginning at once, and giving them something to do, he planned on a large scale a series of translations and also editions of the Fathers.  It was announced, with an elaborate prospectus, in 1836, under the title, in conformity with the usage of the time, which had Libraries of Useful Knowledge, etc., of a Library of Fathers of the Holy Catholic Church anterior to the Division of the East and West, under the editorship of Dr. Pusey, Mr. Keble, and Mr. Newman.  It was dedicated to the Archbishop of Canterbury, and had a considerable number of Bishops among its subscribers.  Down to a very late date, the Library of the Fathers, in which Charles Marriott came to take a leading part, was a matter of much concern to Dr. Pusey.  And to bring men together, and to interest them in theological subjects, he had evening meetings at his own house, where papers were read and discussed.  “Some persons,” writes a gossiping chronicler of the time,[51] “thought that these meetings were liable to the statute, De conventiculis illicitis reprimendis.”  Some important papers were the result of these meetings; but the meetings themselves were irresistibly sleepy, and in time they were discontinued.  But indefatigable and powerful in all these beginnings Dr. Pusey stirred men to activity and saw great ground of hope.  He was prepared for opposition, but he had boundless reliance on his friends and his cause.  His forecast of the future, of great days in store for the Church of England, was, not unreasonably, one of great promise.  Ten years might work wonders.  The last fear that occurred to him was that within ten years a hopeless rift, not of affection but of conviction, would have run through that company of friends, and parted irrevocably their course and work in life.