![A Layman's Life in the Days of the Tractarian Movement; In Memoriam Arthur [Acland] Troyte](/jacket/500x500/9781230281667.jpg)
Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VIII. personal IReligfon. Connection witb tbe "ZEractartan /IDovement." PNOUGH has been said in previous chapters to prove the very high standard of life which Arthur Acland set before himself, and which by his published writings he attempted to set before others. But it is necessary, if this sketch is to be at all complete, to go somewhat deeper into the more personal aspect of his religion. He left behind him indeed, in writing, such outpourings of his inmost thoughts, such evidences of the closest communings with his heavenly Father, that it would be quite impossible to reproduce for the eye of the general public. But without trenching on matter over which the mantle of silence must be thrown, it will be helpful and instructive to discuss here some points of his religious life, his attitude to the leading topics of the day, his connection with the great upheaval of the Tractarian, or High Church, movement, and with the leaders of that movement, and his own views, as far as they can now be ascertained, of that and other similar subjects. Above all things he would have dreaded to be labelled a "Party" man, and yet it is necessary to make use of "Party" phraseology in discussing this question. It is no doubt true that there were in his character very marked elements of both Low Church and High Church principles. All his home teaching as a boy, and probably the majority of his father's most valued friends were Evangelical. All the influence of his wife's father and mother, to which he became subject very soon after leaving college, was also of a similar nature. Much of his conversation, many of the religious principles on which he laid the greatest stress, his never-ending study of the Bible, which resulted in a remarkable...
