rary powers to
make a stand, if a stand could be made, against the calamity of the
times. He was gifted with a high and large mind, and a true sensibility
of what was great and beautiful; he wrote with warmth and energy; and he
had a cool head and cautious judgment. He spent his strength and
shortened his life. Pro Ecclesia Dei, as he understood that sovereign
idea. Some years earlier he had been the first to give warning, I think
from the University Pulpit at Cambridge, of the perils to England which
lay in the biblical and theological speculations of Germany. The Reform
agitation followed, and the Whig Government came into power; and he
anticipated in their distribution of Church patronage the authoritative
introduction of liberal opinions into the country. He feared that by the
Whig party a door would be opened in England to the most grievous of
heresies, which never could be closed again. In order under such grave
circumstances to unite Churchmen together, and to make a front against
the coming danger, he had in 1832 commenced the British Magazine, and in
the same year he came to Oxford in the summer term, in order to beat up
for writers for his publication; on that occasion I became known to him
through Mr. Palmer. His reputation and position came in aid of his
obvious fitness, in point of character and intellect, to become the
centre of an ecclesiastical movement, if such a movement were to depend
on the action of a party. His delicate health, his premature death,
would have frustrated the expectation, even though the new school of
opinion had been more exactly thrown into the shape of a party, than in
fact was the case. But he zealously backed up the first efforts of those
who were principals in it; and, when he went abroad to die, in 1838, he
allowed me the solace of expressing my feelings of attachment and
gratitude to him by addressing him, in the dedication of a volume of my
Sermons, as the man "who, when hearts were failing, bade us stir up the
gift that was in us, and betake ourselves to our true Mother."

But there were other reasons, besides Mr. Rose's state of health, which
hindered those who so much admired him from availing themselves of his
close co-operation in the coming fight. United as both he and they were
in the general scope of the Movement, they were in discordance with each
other from the first in their estimate of the means to be adopted for
attaining it. Mr. Rose had a position in the Church