As  you  are  well  aware,  the  desire  for  reunion  is  not  con-
fined to  one  party  in  the  Church.  The  Evangelical  Section
desire  it  too,  but  their  advances  are  addressed  to  the
Evangelical  Churches  of  Continental  Europe  and  the  Free
Churches  (as  they  are  styled)  at  home.  As,  however,  these
bodies  regard  the  form  of  Church  organization  a  matter  of
secondary  importance,  the  reunion  desired  by  them  is  rather
that  of  joint  action  in  religious  enterprise  and  interchange  of
pulpit  ministrations  than  any  corporate  solidarity.  The
Oxford  School,  on  the  other  hand,  holds  the  central  principle
of  the  Apostolic  Succession.  It  cannot,  therefore,  be  satisfied
with  its  existing  relations  to  the  Historic  Churches  of  East
and  West.  It  craves  for  visible  unity,  and,  at  the  risk  of
misinterpretation,  holds  out  its  hand  to  them  both.  The
issues  of  this  development  are  yet  in  the  womb  of  the
future,  and  he  would  be  a  bold  prophet  who  ventured  to
forecast  them.  Still,  there  can  be  no  doubt  that  the  great
spiritual  wave  of  reunion  which  swept  across  the  religious
mind  of  England  so  forcibly  a  few  years  ago,  was  to  a  large
extent  generated  by  the  forces  of  the  Oxford  Movement.
I  have  now  surveyed  briefly  and  sketchily,  but  I  hope  not
otherwise  than  clearly,  the  entire  field  of  Anglican  organiza-
tion, and  have  endeavoured  in  a  few  words  to  point  out  the
connection  between  the  Movement  which  forms  the  subject
of  these  lectures  and  the  extraordinary,  almost  miraculous,
extension  of  the  Church's  vital  energy.  Nor  do  I  believe
that  my  estimate  is  in  any  way  exaggerated.  If  anything,
I  believe  that  posterity  will  credit  the  Oxford  triumvirate
and  their  School  with  an  even  larger  share  in  this  great
ecclesiastical  resurrection  than  I  have  assigned  to  them.
