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CHAPTER XV.
RITUALISM.
1860-1868.
DISCUSSIONS IN PARLIAMENT AND IN CONVOCATION THE RITUAL
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-ST. MICHAEL S, SHOREDITCH CHARGE OF 1866.
ALTHOUGH the controversies which turned upon Essays
and Reviews, and upon the writings of Bishop Colenso,
had for some years diverted public attention from Ritual
to remember that the Ritual
disputations, it is necessary
movement was all the while in full swing, and that the
Bishop of London, from the necessity of his position, stood
at the very centre of the strife, for in those years it
was to London with a few noteworthy exceptions that
Ritual difficulties were confined. In May 1860, Lord
Shaftesbury introduced a Bill into Parliament to restrain
Ritualistic novelties, 1 but it perished without even the
dignity of a debate, and his intolerance of High Church
innovations was tempered for a time by his alliance with
Dr. Pusey and others against what was regarded as the
yet more dangerous rationalistic schooj. Dr. Pusey, on
February 17, 1864, wrote to the Record what was described
in its leading article as "an admirable and faithful letter,"
1 It provided that the Queen in Council might, on the advice of any three
of the four Archbishops of England and Ireland, issue orders to regulate the
furniture and ornaments of Churches and the vestments of the Clergy.
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