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 continual succession from the days of the Apostles downwards. This sermon was greatly disliked by the Queen's advisers, and it took away from Hook's popularity. But 100,000 copies of this sermon were sold and read, and thus the views which he advocated were spread.

Another sermon of importance was preached in the year 1843, and this by Dr. Pusey, at Oxford. The subject was, "The Holy Communion a comfort for the penitent." This sermon brought such a hornet's nest about Pusey's ears that he was suspended for the next two years from preaching in the University pulpit. He desired to explain the meaning of his statements in this sermon, but his judges, very unfairly, would not hear him.

I now come to a very sad story in the history of the Oxford Movement. A split was made in the party. Keble, Pusey, and Isaac Williams took one side, and Newman, Oakley, and Ward the other side. In years to come the first three men were looked upon as the representatives and leaders of the High Church party in the Church of England. Newman, Oakley, and Ward seceded from the Church, and went over to the ranks of Rome.

I will not dwell upon the struggles through which they passed before they were able to acknowledge themselves obedient to the Pope. They gradually drifted away from the Church. Ward had published his work "The ideal of the Church considered." In this he stated that he did not renounce any one of the Roman doctrines. This expression of his opinions aroused Convocation, and as this was in flat contradiction to the teaching of the Articles, he was condemned. Oakley was also condemned for holding all the Papal