76 JOHN KEBLE.
shall find. . . . How the doctrine may be first thrown
forward we know not, but the powers of the world may
any day turn their backs upon us, and this probably
will lead to those effects I have described." ^ This is
exactly what was happening ; the powers of the world
were turning their backs upon the Church; but its
champions were being prepared. In London an active
body of Churchmen, with Joshua Watson as their centre,
had done and were doing much to carry Church
principles into active work. The National Society
had been founded in 1811; the Christian Knowledge
Society had been reorganized ; King's College had been
founded in 1829 ; the bishoprics of Calcutta (1814),
Jamaica, and Barbadoes (1824) had been founded and
endowed by the State. At Cambridge, Hugh James
Bose, "the most accomplished divine And teacher in
the English Church," ^ was, as Christian Advocate in
the University pulpit, and, after 1832, as editor of the
British Magaziiu, bidding " us, when hearts were failing,
stir up the gift that was in us, and betake ourselves
to our own true mother." ^

But it is with Oxford that we are primarily con-
cerned. There Oriel had become the centre of Church-
manship. Newman had entirely emancipated himself
from Whatele/s influence, and had accepted Keble's
principles. This had been Froude's doing, and he boasts
of it as the one good work of his life, that he had brought
Keble and Newman to understand each other; and

* From a conversation with Eev. W. J. Copeland, preserved in
Mr. Copeland's handwriting in his copy of Sites* Farochial Com-
munion, and printed in J. H. Newman's Letters and Corre^ond-
ence, ii., Appendix, p. 483.
