ste that he may sanctify his purposes
by worship, shall be symbols still failing to express the fulness
of the power of God developed among His people.

_March 21._--Wrote on 1 Thess. v. 17, and read it to servants. Read
_The Young Communicants_; Bishop Hall's _Life_. It seems as if at
this time the number and close succession of occupations without
any great present reward of love or joy, and chiefly belonging to
an earthly and narrow range, were my special trial and discipline.
Other I seem hardly to have any of daily pressure. Health in myself
and those nearest me; (comparative) wealth and success; no strokes
from God; no opportunity of pardoning others, for none offend me.

_April 3._--Two or three nights ago Mrs. Wilbraham told Catherine
that Stanley was extremely surprised to find, after his speech on
the Tarmworth and Rugby railway bill, that Peel had been very much
annoyed with the expression he had used: 'that his right hon.
friend had in pleading for the bill made use of all that art and
ingenuity with which he so well knew how to dress up a statement
for that House,' and that he showed his annoyance very much by his
manner to him, S., afterwards. He, upon reflecting that this was
the probable cause, wrote a note to Peel to set matters to rights,
in which he succeeded; but he thought Peel very thin-skinned. Wm.
Cowper told me the other day at Milnes's that Lord John Russell is
remarkable among his colleagues for his anxiety during the recess
for the renewal of the session of parliament; that he always argues
for fixing an early day of meeting, and finds pleas for it, and
finds the time long until it recommences.

A visit to Nuneham (April 12) and thence to Oxford brought him into the
centre of the tractarians. He saw much of Hamilton, went to afternoon
service at Littlemore, breakfasted in company with Newman at Merton, had
a long conversation with Pusey on Tract 90, and gathered that Newman
thought differently of the Council of Trent from what he had thought a
year or two back, and that he differed from Pusey in thinking the
English reformation uncatholic. Mr. Gladstone replied that No. 90 had
the appearance to his mind of being written by a man, if in, not of, the
church of England; and would be interpreted as exhibiting the Tridentine
system for the ideal, the anglican for a mutilate