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THE

VI.

Keble.

HIGH CHURCH" AND THE CHRISTIAN

YEAR.

N discussing Keble and "The Christian
Year," I shall not merely read a few

extracts and make a few comments, but I shall try to give you a clear view, if only in outline, of the great High Church movement, in its first, as well as in that second development in the midst of which we are now living.

There is nothing so improving to the mind as to hold together the great religious movements of each age, in their right connexion. They are none of them isolated phenomena, the eccentricities of priests or people. They have their origin, rise, progress, and decay. You can never do them, or the men that lead them, justice until you understand that. You must note how one movement of thought, one set of men, one class of books, come from certain states, tendencies, and necessities of the age. And therefore it is in

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