TABLE OF CONTENTS. His birth and early training His career and rooms at Oriel :-his marriage Loss of his wife, the perpetual overclouding of his days Rector of Alverstoke,-Dean of Westminster,-Bishop of Oxford Ferment occasioned by Hampden's appointment. Wilberforce calamitously drawn into the snare His method of conducting Ordinations described A day at Cuddesdon described. The dinner description of what had gone before, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. scene at the writing-table, 6 p.m. to 7.30 p.m. . Wilberforce's wonderful power of work:-his Candidates for Orders the drawing-room after dinner His letters written in railway carriages His manifold engagements. The Bishop at Turvey Abbey Remarks on the subject His Sermons and exquisite pulpit oratory His appetite for hearing Serinons Power of sympathy, the secret of his marvellous success His thorough loyalty to the Church of England Critical moment when he was appointed Bishop of Oxford 50 'Ritualism' the outcome of the later Tractarianism' Wilberforce unsuccessful in handling that form of lawlessness his valedictory words of remonstrance and condemnation habitual auricular Confession,'-exaggerated view of 'Fasting Communion,' – 'Non-Communicating attendance'. 'Fidgetty anxiety to adopt alien practices,'-all sternly de- бо Devotional side of Wilberforce's character His manysidedness, industry, and administrative skill The joyousness of his disposition. His versatility,—and almost boyish freshness. Anecdotes of Wilberforce, illustrative of his playfulness His yearning for love and confidence Strength of his domestic affections Wilberforce amid his 'body guard' His calamitous death,- -on Saturday, 19th July, 1873 Interment beside his wife, at Lavington His Birth and Ancestry 71 His Parentage,-Family,-Education He obtains a Scholarship at Worcester College :—is elected Fellow Refounds the 'National Society' for Promoting the Education of the Poor in the Principles of the Established Church Also of the 'Ashmolean Club,'-and of the Ashmolean Society' Reclaims 'Port Meadow':-promotes the 'Central African Mission' 117 He is sent to Merchant Taylors' School. His boyhood Publishes Poems:-loses his Father Studies Hebrew:—becomes probationary Fellow of S. John's Paul Parnell (p. 166).-H. L. Mansel at College His public Examination :-he obtains a 'double-first' Class Becomes a great Teacher.-Recollections by the Earl of Carnarvon H. L. Mansel's early writings.-His election to the 'Hebdomadal Controversy with F. D. Maurice :—with Professor Goldwin Smith S. T. Coleridge (p. 196).-J. S. Mill. Mansel's estimate of Bishop Butler H. L. Mansel and the 'Agnostics' His Writings. He visits the Continent Becomes' Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History' Is appointed Dean of S. Paul's. His Parentage, and the story of his early life 238 At S. Edmund Hall, is befriended by C. T. Longley. Friendship with the Fursdons of Fursdon. Alexander Knox's estimate of William Jacobson |