THE STORY OF THE OXFORD MOVEMENT.
[To THE EDITOR 07 THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—While thanking you for your notice of my "Story of the Oxford Movement" allow me to say in connection with your remarks, which appear to question the statement that the doctrines of the Church of England of to-day are sub- stantially the same as those which were taught in the infant Church in Rome. My view is based rather upon the words of the late Lord Selborne, who in his "Defence of the Church" thus lays it down that "if the authorised doctrine and practice of the Church of England at the present day should be compared with that of the Christian Church gener- ally, including the Church of Rome in the days of Augustine, it would require a strong application of the theological microscope to discover any really substantial differences between them. Almost, if not everything, which the Church of England has since rejected as usurpation or corruption was then unknown." I have quoted these words in the ap- pendix to my book. I should like to hear what your readers —learned in such matters—have to say on this point.—I am, Sir, &c., a H. F. NYE Old Bailey, E.G., February 25th.
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