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 THE ARCHDEACON OF LIVERPOOL 361

also embraced such subjects as The Confessional in the Church of England, Queen Elizabeth and the Bishops of 1559, and many of the tracts of the Church Association, notably the first three, Must we Confess ? etc., etc.

��&quot; Liverpool, it seems, has long been the strong hold of Evangelical Protestantism ? &quot; was the sug gestion put to Archdeacon Taylor at the interview accorded at Liverpool.

&quot;Yes. Much more so in the past than in the present day. A great change has overcome Liver pool. However, as regards the working men, it is still a stronghold both of Conservatism and Protestantism. Evangelicalism may be said to have enjoyed its strongest position from about 1842 up to 1870 in fact, up to the time the English Church Union was founded. When I first came to Liverpool, over half a century ago, not more than two clergymen, if two, preached in the surplice, and the black gown was as familiar then in the pulpit as the surplice is to-day. The original leaders of the High Church movement were John Keble, Newman, Pusey (in 1833), the Revs. Hurrel Froude, Hugh Rose, Ward, Glad stone, then, for a time, Dr Hook of Leeds, Manning, and Archdeacon Denison. The effect soon spread to this city, and to-day, in several churches, some of the most extreme practices are carried on.&quot;

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