The movement in the Anglican Church, which, at the present time, has occasioned that violent oscillation between two extremes, has, as we all know, been set in action by the energy of a body of pious and eminently learned Divines of the University of Oxford; and whatever difference of sentiment may exist, as to their opinions and judgment, I believe I may safely assert, that the meed of commendation which has been awarded them by those Dignitaries of our Church who have alluded to their writings, is universally and most justly conceded to them by all candid and unprejudiced persons, _viz._ that they are men of acknowledged piety and sincerity, of unsullied morality, and profound learning and research. I have said that the duty allotted to me this day is one from which I would fain have been absolved; but there is a circumstance connected with it, which affords me much personal satisfaction—and it is this:—that while I thus most freely and cheerfully bear this testimony to the character and ability of the authors of the “_Tracts far the Times_;”—while I do not shrink from declaring, but am rejoiced to acknowledge, the good service they have, in my humble estimation, in many ways rendered to the Church;—I, at the same time, am far from subscribing to _all their opinions_: nay, I deplore most sincerely _much_ that they have _written_, _much_ they have _done_—only too painfully proving how fallible even the best-informed and best-intentioned amongst men may be. While they viewed with just alarm and grief the spirit of Latitudinarianism which was rapidly leavening the Church of England, they fearlessly and honestly stood forth to arrest a torrent which was undermining the foundation of that venerable fabric, and awakened us to the danger of that schismatic poison which was insidiously stealing through the whole frame of her system. They have recalled us to the sacred obligations we are under to regard and uphold the fundamental doctrines of the Church of Christ, in the beauty of their pristine purity, as restored to us at the Reformation—they have vindicated the two Sacraments, and especially that of Baptism, from the deadening and false interpretation with which it has been attempted to obscure them—they have revived a spirit of zeal into the ministrations of the Church, and rescued from oblivion the many portions of her beautiful services which had too generally fallen into desuetude—they have, as it were, purified the temples of our native land, dedicated and consecrated to the service of God, from a laxity which had lamentably paralysed the spirituality of the services of the sanctuary. These things, amongst many others I could name, they have done;—for these we have reason to feel gratitude to them for their labours of love;—but, in the plenitude of zeal, they have, alas! outstepped the bounds of moderation—in some of the later Tracts, and particularly in the Ninetieth, they have justly alarmed all