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disappointed. The Bishop objected to the inscribed prayer that God would be merciful to Lucy Pusey. For the time, therefore, the Plate was withheld; in the following spring Pusey was able to suggest a new inscription', which gave

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expression to his deceased daughter's wishes, while it also met with the Bishop's approval.

The consecration itself, on the Feast of St. Simon

The inscriptions finally chosen ran as follows: on the paten. Panem angelorum manducavit homo. Alleluio, Alleluia, Alleluia'; on the chalice,

'Calicem salutaris accipiam et sacrificabo hostiam laudis. Alleluia,' and Mors tua sit mihi gloria sempiterna et nunc et in perpetuum.

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and St. Jude, passed off happily. It was a fine day; a mild October sun did something to relieve the wonted gloom of the neighbourhood. From the early morning the church gates were besieged. The Vicar of Leeds and a large majority of the local clergy took part in the proceedings. Two hundred and sixty clergy in all were present. The people of the neighbourhood gazed with wondering but not unfriendly eyes on the unwonted sight of the long procession of surpliced clergy, as it wound up fron the schoolroom at the bottom of the hill to the western door of the church. There, beneath the much-questioned inscription, the Bishop received the petition for consecration; the 24th Psalm was repeated in alternate verses, as the procession passed up the nave; and the Bishop took his seat on the north side of the altar, where the legal formalities were completed, and the usual service of consecration proceeded with. The clergy filled the chancel and the transepts; all the other seats and the passages were closely packed with the laity. Matins were said by the incumbent, the Rev. R. Ward; the Psalms were chanted to Gregorian tones by the choir of the new church, assisted by that of the parish church. The founder himself chose an anthem befitting the penitential spirit in which the church was offered to Almighty God. It was Atwood's Enter not into judgment with Thy servant, O Lord,' and it was sung without an organ accompaniment. The Bishop preached on Isaiah v. 4, taking occasion to point out the blessings which we enjoy as members of the English Church, and the dangers which would be incurred by ungrateful abuse of them. The offertory amounted to £985. The Bishop himself was celebrant; there were five hundred communicants; and the service, which had begun at halfpast eleven, did not conclude until after four o'clock.

When, at its conclusion, the clergy reached the schoolroom which they had left five hours before, Dr. Hook proposed an address to the Bishop, to be signed by the clergy who were present, pledging them to loyalty to the Church of England. With the object of such an address

Pusey had, of course, entire sympathy, but the terms in which it was drawn up were too largely due to the heated controversy and panic of the time to be welcome to him.

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The clergy were too tired and hungry to do more than agree that there should be an address, while its terms were left open for further discussion.

Pusey's Sermon in the Evening.

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At the evening service Pusey preached to a very crowded congregation. His subject was the loving penitence of St. Mary Magdalen, with whom he associates himself, both in her sin and her repentance. He reminds his audience more than once that the church was the offering of a penitent; he assures them that 'as yet this stray sheep is not laid up in the everlasting fold,' and that it 'was a joy to him that his penitent love had called forth that of others.' All that his hearers knew was that Pusey knew who this penitent was, and they might further have inferred that Pusey knew him intimately. But that the penitent was himself, the preacher, was more than any would have surmised; although this circumstance added greatly to the power of the sermon. It was sufficient for Pusey that God knew his singleness of purpose, his lowly penitence, his hopeful perseverance in spite of all hindrances, his sincere concern for the souls of his fellow-men. Unaffected by general suspicion, by the hesitancy and changeableness of Hook's support, or by the scarcely concealed distrust of the Bishop, he was able thus quietly, without the knowledge or appreciation of men, to dedicate his noble offering to God.

During the octave of the consecration, nineteen sermons were preached besides that of the Bishop; three sermons on four of the days and two on the others. Of these sermons Pusey delivered no less than seventeen1; ten were entirely written by him; the others he preached for their respective writers; but he appears to have added to each some of his own thoughts. He seems to have broken down when attempting to utter one of the most solemn passages in Keble's sermon on 'the Last Judgment". This sermon is probably the finest in the series, but Pusey's own contributions to the course were not unworthy of the occasion. These sermons illustrate, as well as any he has published, the two governing characteristics of his religious mind-the vivid intensity with which he grasped the realities of the unseen

1 The Rev. W. U. Richards and the Rev. W. Dodsworth were able to be present to preach their sermons. 2 'Leeds Sermons,' p. 84. K k

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world, and the hopefulness which animated his whole conception of the relations between the soul and its Maker and Redeemer. The penitent is conducted from the abyss of humiliation and defilement, but without any compromise of moral truth, to the Presence Chamber of heaven.

Pusey was much cheered by the spiritual results of this effort, so far as they could be measured.

'The sermons,' he wrote to Keble, 'became a sort of "retreat" for people to think in stillness over very solemn subjects. And yours impressed persons much. It was a very blessed time. God's blessing seemed visibly settled there. People came, day after day, to the three sermons (mostly), listened very earnestly, and returned home with a deepened sense of responsibility. This was expressed very affectingly. It was a very cheering week. There seemed such a much deeper spirit among the clergy, a greater sense of the need of intercession.'

Meanwhile Hook became very uneasy, and false rumours increased his discomfort. He therefore wrote to Pusey expressing his conviction that Newman's secession made a strong anti-Roman declaration necessary, if he was to hold his own in Leeds against Puritanism no less than against Rome. He probably overrated the value of such documents; he certainly attached to vehement language about Popery a value which it does not possess for any except the impetuous or half-educated. But it is difficult at this date to do full justice to the anxieties of the position.

Pusey received this renewed appeal just as he was preparing to preach on the Eve of All Saints. But he lost no time in answering it in terms of characteristic mildness and discretion.

MY DEAR FRIEND,

Vigil of All Saints, 1845.

I am looking over my sermon for 7.30, but I wish just to relieve you of your anxiety: first, there is no new clergyman come to St. Saviour's; secondly, I do not know any Romanizers with me. The only persons whose sermons have been preached are C. Marriott's, J. Keble's, Is. Williams', with Richards and Dodsworth, all of whom you knew of.

You really have no reason to dread St. Saviour's: there has been no reserve with the Bishop. Ward is no Romanizer but devoted to his Master's work simply. He has told the Bishop all he wishes; pray do not mistrust him, nor think that I am going to make any instrument

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