The  position  thus  indicated  he  shortly  afterwards  de-
veloped in  a  still  bolder  form.  In  1843  Mr.  William
Palmer  had  written  a  severe  pamphlet,1  accusing  the
Tractarian  School  of  trying  to  Romanize  our  Church,  and
defending  his  charges  by  quotations  from  the  works  more
especially  of  Newman  and  Ward.  Ward  determined  to
reply.  But  his  projected  pamphlet  grew  into  a  ponderous
treatise  of  600  pages,  which  was  published  in  1844,  under
the  title,  "  The  Ideal  of  a  Christian  Church."  This  work,
which  I  suppose  no  one  now  thinks  of  reading,  created  a
perfect  storm  of  passionate  feeling  when  issued.  Its  ability
was  great ;  its  thoroughness  unquestionable  ;  its  boldness
attractive  ;  and  its  conclusions,  to  say  the  least,  remarkable.
