THE 0 X FOR D MOVEMENT
[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The proposed observance of the Oxford Movement at the forthcoming Centenary Congress Meetings in July is primarily intended as a commemoration of the work effected by the founders of the movement in their insistence upon the Catholic nature of the Prayer Book in its teaching and formularies.
There is, however, a well-intentioned desire in certain quarters to combine with this commemoration some form of thanksgiving for the benefits of the Evangelical revival.
The Evangelical revival achieved many positive results which, I assume, would be regarded by churchmen with universal approval.
At the same time, its sacramental tenets are so sharply opposed to those of the Oxford Movement that any attempt at a joint commemoration between such strongly antithetical schools of religious thought is a palpable absurdity.—I am,
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