12 JANUARY 1878, Page 3

The English Church has lost one of its most original

thinkers ty the death of Canon Mosley, the Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford. His Bampton Lectures on Miracles, and still more the very striking volume of University Sermons published a year -or two ago, marked him out as one of the few thinkers whose best sermons would match fairly, for lucidity and depth of thought, those of Bishop Butler or Dr. Newman. His style was some- what pallid, though not without a grace and beauty of its own, but for depth of insight into the moral and intellectual principles at work in Revelation, and for skill in illustrating that insight, he was certainly without a rival in the English Church of our generation.