FROM THE LIBRARY OF REV. LOUIS FITZGERALD BENSON, D. D. BEQUEATHED BY HIM TO THE LIBRARY OF PRINCETON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ISo/7 / - far f^»/.U~~c ?* Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2013 http://archive.org/details/auphyofiOOwill THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY ISAAC WILLIAMS, B.D. ^&1 OF Pft/.v^N. OCT 8 1931 ' THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY X^ch SEtt^ OF ISAAC WILLIAMS, B.D. FELLOW AND TUTOR OF TRINITY COLLEGE, OXFORD AUTHOR OF SEVERAL OF THE "TRACTS FOR THE TIMES " "A COMMENTARY OX THE GOSPEL NARRATIVE," ETC. EDITED BY HIS BROTHER-IN-LAW THE VEN. SIR GEORGE PREVOST LATE ARCHDEACON OF GLOUCESTER AS THROWING FURTHER LIGHT ON THE HISTORY OF THE OXFORD MOVEMENT SECOND EDITION LONDON LONGMANS, GREEN, & CO. AND NEW YORK : 15 EAST 16th STREET 1892 AH rights reserved EDITOR'S PREFACE The Editor has preserved the Author's original preface as showing the real purpose and essen- tial character of the autobiography as written by the Author for his children. Very little has been suppressed, and in most cases only what was of a private nature. Some of the Editor's own recollections of the great actors in the movement are inserted here and there in notes, and especially of John Keble. But he clings to the hope that some time or other the life and principal letters of the great saint and religious poet of the present century may be given to the Church. For he must ever earnestly long and pray that John Keble may be made known to the present and future generations, as he was known by them who, like the Author and the Editor, had the privilege of being with him, when cheerfully joining in the joys of young people, and also in graver hours VI EDITOR'S PREFACE. when bis far-seeing eye saw the dark clouds rising, and yet more when at last cruel disap- pointments of the hopes, that he had at one time ventured to cherish, seemed to have come upon him and his friends. Still, the spirit of resignation never forsook him — " Though dearest hopes were faithless found, And dearest hearts were bursting round." One cannot but think of what Hooker says of St. Athanasius, bk. v., ch. xlii. § 5 ; though, thank God, it was not " only in " John Keble that, throughout the course of that long and sad history, " nothing is observed other than such as very well became a wise man to do, and a righteous man to suffer." My dear Children, If any of you should live to manhood, you will be glad to know something of the history of my life, and tJie more so, as parts of it have bee?i spent among persons and circumstances in themselves of some interest and moment, and such as must have some effect on tJie future character and history of the Church in this country. I am therefore about to set down for you in writing a few memorials of tlie past, which I may not live to communicate to you in any other way, wJien any of you shall be of years to understand them. ISAAC WILLIAMS. Stinchcombe, December 10, 1 85 1. THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ISAAC WILLIAMS, B.D. I was born l at Cwmcynfelin, 2 where my mother was in the habit of staying oc- casionally with her father, but my early years were mostly spent in London, from the fact of my father being engaged as a Chancery barrister in Lincoln's Inn. 3 We lived at a corner of Bloomsbury Square, in a small street, where, I believe, Newman also must have been living at the same time, though I knew nothing then of him- self and his family. I had two brothers older than myself, and one younger, my 1 Dec. 12, 1802. a Near Aberystwith, Cardiganshire. 8 Son of the Rev. Isaac Williams, Prebendary of Brecon. 2 A UTOBIOGRAPHY OF ISAAC WILLIAMS. sister being the youngest of all. We had a tutor named Polehampton, an Eton man, and of King's College, Cambridge. After some time he engaged himself to live in the country as curate to a Fellow of Eton named Roberts, in a parish named Worp- lesdon, near Guildford, and proposed that we should go and live with him. This we did, together with two sons of Dr. Willis, the rector of Bloomsbury, our parish in London. Mr. Polehampton soon afterwards added to this number of pupils, till it became fifteen, at which it always continued. They were all boys intended for Eton, except ourselves. At this school we had everything that boys would wish for at that age — a garden for each of us, rabbits, donkeys, cricket, and other out-of-door games. Under that master I first derived a liking for Latin verse. I remember his once mentioning TRIALS OF SCHOOL LIFE. 3 a reward he would give to the first boy who would bring him a copy of Latin verses out of his own head, and my greatly surprising him and anticipating his intentions by almost immediately pro- ducing a copy. But my recollections of that school upon the whole are such, that I never could send a child to a private school. Almost the first boys I came in contact with, on leaving home, produced on my mind a very startling impression. I remember then feeling, for the first time, that I understood what the Bible and the Catechism meant by speaking of the world as "wicked." In early childhood I was often much affected with strong impressions on the shortness of life, and the transitory nature of all human things, and was greatly taken with Sherlock on Death, sentences of which haunted me like some musical strain. 4 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ISAAC WILLIAMS. From this school I went to Harrow, where I enjoyed much freedom and hap- piness, more perhaps than was good for one. We boarded in the house of an aged clergyman, who only admitted about six ; lived in his family with every home comfort in a house commanding that very extensive prospect from Harrow towards London. We had each of us his little study, so small as only to admit of one companion. At Harrow I should have spent my time very idly, playing much at cricket and such games, were it not that I took great delight in Latin exercises, especially Latin verse ; and my ambition, too, was excited in getting prizes and boyish admiration. When in the sixth form, where we were left much at liberty to select any mode of treating a given thesis, I used to stay awake in bed, and so would do a whole exercise, committing REMEMBRANCE OF HARROW. 5 it to paper in the morning, to the surprise of those companions who knew I had left it all undone on the evening before. And so much was I used even to think in Latin, that, when I had to write an English theme, which was very rarely, I had to translate my ideas, which ran in Latin, into English. My great bane at Harrow was the very warm and strong attachments I formed with boys not in every case of the best principles. But my one great friend lat- terly was a boy who came to Harrow with very singular promise, having pub- lished a volume of poems at the age of eleven, and another at fourteen, and the Percy Anecdotes on the subject of " Youth " were at that time dedicated to him, with his picture in the frontispiece ; he was introduced to the Duke of Wel- lington, and extremely flattered and ad- 6 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF 1S4AC WILLIAMS. mired, especially by his own father, Sir G. Dallas. He was at that time one of great tenderness of mind, but of peculiar fastidious refinement. He is the present Sir Robert C. Dallas. We went to Oxford to be entered together, his father accom- panying us, and we at first lived much together in Oxford, although he was of Oriel College and I of Trinity. The great charm of my life at Harrow was composition, especially Latin, and our exercises were so numerous — four every week — that I then acquired the habit of writing so much. In our school library there was an elegant edition of his poems which Lord Byron had given, having been himself educated at Harrow. Into these poems I ventured to look, feeling at the time that I ought not to do so, but was most agreeably surprised by finding so very little harm in them ; indeed, nothing REMEMBRANCE OF HARROW. 7 but what / thought one might read with safety, and from this was but a slight step to great admiration. The subtle poison of these books did me incalculable injury for many years ; the more so as the infidelity was so veiled in beautiful verse and refined sentiment. To counter- act all these and the like temptations at that most important period of life, I re- ceived at Harrow no religious instruction whatever of any kind, and the place in church, where the lower school sat at that time, was in a gallery of the side aisle, where it was impossible to hear any part of the service. Happy as my youth was at Harrow, and much pained as I was to leave it, yet I earnestly pray God that He will prolong my life for the education of my own children, that they may never go to any school, although I consider our great public schools better than smaller 8 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ISAAC WILLIAMS. and private schools, from my own experi- ence ; and although I am aware that self- ishness and ambition are more fostered by home-education, yet the atmosphere of a public school must be very different from what it then was to be suitable for a Christian child. 1 At Harrow there were speech days, one in each of the three summer months, when the senior boys recited set speeches before a large company. On the opening of the new schools, when I was there, three prizes were appointed to be given annually from that time. I was writing for the Latin, when I was called away to attend the funeral of my grandfather in Wales. I put what I had done into the hands of a 1 He must ultimately have modified his views as to the comparative benefits and temptations connected with home and school education, for at last he sent his children to large schools, Marlborough, Winchester, etc. — (Editor's note.) LOVE OF LATIN COMPOSITION. 9 friend, to write out and send in for me ; and on my return from Wales found that my poem was one of the successful three. The next year — no one being allowed to succeed twice for the same prize — I was allowed to be a candidate, only for the other two prizes, the Greek and Latin Lyrics ; and was again inopportunely sent home, and there laid up with a fever, in London. But the subjects continued in my mind, and as soon as I was able to write, I sent them to a friend at Harrow, one with the motto " velut aegri somnia vanae finguntur species." And both my poems were successful, to the surprise of all the school, who thought I had been removed by my illness from the scene of competition. Had it not been for this love of com- position, I was at this time rather an idle than a studious boy ; being one of the chief cricketers at the school, and taken c io AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ISAAC WILLIAMS. up with the fascinations of the society I was falling into in the families of those boys who were my chief friends. We in the sixth form looked with great admira- tion on our head master, Dr. Butler ; and my tutor, Henry Drury, who was then very famous for his library, was an emi- nent classical scholar; but the tastes of the two were so very different, that one would often praise the same exercise and select it for commendation, which the other had as strongly condemned. But both gave great encouragement to one ambitious of such excellence. I cannot recall my feelings at that period without emotion : something within me would have expanded the heart to everything great and good ; but it was not so. I was surrounded with alluring temptations and flattered, with no one in that little opening world to guide me or speak of Christianity. I was entered at SCHOLAR OF TRINITY. i\ Trinity College by Henry Drury, against my father's wishes, who was desirous of what he would have thought a better college for me, and on going to reside there I found a nephew of H. Drury's, a scholar of the college, was engaged by him as my private tutor, but from this unprofitable connection I disengaged my- self during the year. Being thus placed at Trinity, I found in the second term of my residence that scholarships of the college were thrown open to competition and to be contested for. I stood and was elected ; there were no able competitors. The habits suitable to a scholar's gown in some degree tended to break my connection with my more gay Harrow associates ; my ties with Dallas were in some degree loosened. But at this exceedingly miserable period of my life, when I was as one already utterly lost, 1 2 A UTOBIOGRA PHY OF IS A A C WILLI A MS. although in good estimation outwardly among men, yet with ruin within me, almost irretrievably fixed, a very merciful and wondrous Providence was bringing about, by apparently slight accidents, the turning-point of my whole life. There was an excellent old clergyman living at Aberystwith, Mr. Richards, who had been once curate of Fairford, and he promised to introduce me to John Keble, who was then a tutor at Oriel, on the first opportunity, the Kebles having been ac- quainted with my father. This summer, 1822, John Keble came to see his old friend, Mr. Richards, at Aberystwith ; I was introduced to him, and rode with him on his returning home the chief part of the way to the Devil's Bridge, amidst that scenery which suggested, I believe, at that time the hymn for the twentieth Sunday after Trinity. INTRODUCTION TO JOHN KEBLE. 13 I should here mention that Cwmcynfelin, in Wales, had now become our home, as much as London ; my grandfather had at his death left a very large estate, to be divided between his two daughters — my mother, who was the eldest, and her sister, Mrs. General Davies. But it was for some years the subject of an expensive and harassing lawsuit respecting the division. I saw nothing of John Keble, after returning to Oxford, and thought he had forgotten me, till a year had nearly ex- pired, when I succeeded in getting the Latin verse prize, "Ars Geologica." He then appeared in my rooms, on the ground- floor opposite the garden at Trinity, and said he had come to ask whether he could assist me in looking over my prize poem before it was printed and recited. On looking it over with him, I was exceedingly amazed at his remarks, and said, on coming H AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ISAAC WILLIAMS. away, Keble has more poetry in his little finger than Milman in his whole body. For Milman was then the great poet of Oxford, and, as Poetry Professor, he also had been looking over my poem with me. But on venturing to quote Keble's opinion at that time to my tutor at Trinity, he said, "John Keble may understand Aristotle, but he knows nothing of poetry. It is out of his line." This occurred, of course, just before the Long Vacation, when the poems are recited at Oxford ; and, humanly speaking, I was still without any chance or prospect of a change of life. Influences of school and college had done very much to undo the blessed inspirations of childhood, home instructions, and maternal warnings ; and the eye of God set in the soul at Baptism had well-nigh withdrawn itself, although still all was fair without and of good report, TURNING POINT OF HIS LIFE. 15 which renders man more loathsome in the sight of God. But it so happened — by the gracious ordering of Him, who disposeth all things — that I was detained in Oxford, after the vacation had commenced, in order to go up for my Little Go Examination. And when left alone in the college, Keble came to see me, and walking with him out of my rooms, I happened to mention that I had no plan for reading during the vacation, and ought to be thinking of it. After a pause he said, most unexpectedly, " I am going to leave Oxford now for good. Suppose you come and read with me. The Provost has asked me to take Robert Wilberforce, 1 and I declined, but, if you would come, you might be com- panions." It was this very trivial accident, 1 Robert Isaac Wilberforce, son of the great and good William Wilberforce, and elder brother of Samuel, Bishop, first of Oxford, and then of Winchester. —(Editor.) 16 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ISAAC WILLIAMS. this short walk of a few yards and a few words spoken, that were the turning-point of my life. If a merciful God had miracu- lously interposed to arrest my course, I could not have had a stronger assurance of His Presence, than I have always had in looking back to that day. My impression is that John Keble had then been residing nine years as tutor at Oriel. He had been twice examining master, and this, with his double first-class and two prizes in the same year, invested him with a bright halo and something of awe in the eyes of an undergraduate. He was now retiring, to live on the country curacy of Southrop, a little retired village not far from Fairford, where his father and sisters resided. His mother had died just before this time, so that I never saw her. It was a very rainy day when I travelled RESIDENCE WITH JOHN KEBLE. 17 outside a coach from London to Lechlade, where I slept that night, and Keble came and took me to Southrop the next morn- ing. He said, as his house was not yet furnished, and he could not receive us, he thought of our lodging at a farmhouse, called Dean Farm, a solitary place on the Cotswolds. We walked over to see it, about four miles, I think, with Froude, 1 who was also there. It was in the evening, and Keble was out when we started from Southrop. It came on a thick mist and rain, and the night was perfectly dark, and I wandered out the whole ni^ht till near the morning. The next day I was laid up, and Keble sent me a bottle of wine and other things, it being, I think, 1 Richard Hurrell Froude, eldest son of ATch- deacon Froude, and always a very dear friend of Keble, Newman, and Isaac Williams, born Lady Day, 1803, died February 28, 1836. 18 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ISAAC WILLIAMS. Sunday. For six weeks we stayed at this Dean Farm, riding over every day to Southrop, and at the end of that time Keble took us into his house, where I formed a most valued friendship with Froude. He was an Eton man, and at Oriel, of a little older standing than my- self. There was an originality of thought and a reality about him which were very refreshing. Although Oxford had made Keble so formidable, as a don and tutor usually is, yet we found ourselves with him as if he were the youngest, so that John Parker — a rude countryman who acted as clerk, gardener, and groom — used to say, " Master is the greatest boy of the lot." It was to me quite strange and wonderful that one so distinguished should always ask one's opinion, as if he was younger than myself. And one so overflowing with ADM1RA TIONAND LOVE OF JOHN KEBLE. 19 real genuine love in thought, word, and action, was quite new to me, I could scarcely understand it. I had been used to much gentleness and kindness, which is so fascinating in good society, but this was always understood to be chiefly on the surface ; but to find a person always endeavouring to do one good, as it were, unknown to one's self, and in secret, and even avoiding that his kindness should be felt and acknowledged as such, this opened upon me quite a new world. Religion a reality, and a man wholly made up of love, with charms of con- versation, thought, and kindness, beyond what one had experienced among boyish companions, — this broke in upon me all at once. Here were many of us, taught with much pains and care by one till then a stranger, and altogether gratuitously, always rejecting all idea of payment or 20 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ISAAC WILLIAMS. compensation, and this, though he could afford it less than ourselves. This was new. At Harrow, as at other public schools, the poor were never spoken of but by some contemptuous term — looked upon as hateful boors to be fought with, or cajoled for political objects ; but for them to be looked upon with tender regard and friend- ship, more than the rich, and in some cases even referred to as instructors of that wisdom which God teaches them, this was a new world to me ; but, beyond all, for the wisest of the wise, and the most learned of men, to be more full of playful jest than a boy, so full of love and good nature towards all persons, of whom one might speak in conversation. Each of us was always delighted to walk with him, Wilberforce to gather instruction for the schools, and the rest of us for love's sake. READING WITH J. KEBLE. 21 Keble had three small churches to serve — the " nine curacies," as Bishop Lloyd called them — and which he had before often served from Oxford. This long vacation at Southrop, I began Aristotle's " Ethics," which served as a foundation for instruction in religion and morals generally, more than I have ever learned from any one, on any other occa- sion. In addition to this I read nothing but a little of /Eschylus " Agamemnon," and was found deficient, especially in English, so much had I been used to Latin, to the neglect of English, which deficiency I feel I have never recovered. I could always have written better in Latin than in English Keble recom- mended me to render the Greek into English with great care, and to learn Shakespeare by heart. Except for a short time, when I went 22 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ISAAC WILLIAMS. to Wales and rode my horse back, I spent all this vacation at Southrop, and I think all my subsequent ones. It was, I think, on this occasion that John Keble said, " Since you have shown me your Latin poems, I shall be vain enough to show you my English ones," and he then lent me to read what has since been called "The Christian Year." It was carefully written out in small red books. I read it a great deal, but did not much enter into it. No more did Froude when he saw it ; and I think even long after, he was averse to the publication of it. Among other things he said, " People will take Keble for a Methodist." At that time I told Keble my favourite poet was Collins. He said there was not enough thought in him to please himself. Froude was always maintaining some argument with Keble, occasionally some monstrous para- OXFORD UNDERGRADUATE LIFE. 23 dox. He was considered a very odd fellow at College, but clever and original ; Keble alone was able to appreciate and value him. If he had not at this time fallen into such hands, his speculations might have taken a very dangerous turn ; but, as his father, the archdeacon, told me, from this time it was much otherwise, he continued to throw out strong paradoxes, but always for good. On returning to Oxford, Froude had now taken the place of my former com- panions, Keble being a great bond between us. I think he took more to me than I did to him, because I had been used to more of worldly refinement and sentiment; whereas he was unworldly and real. But still, we were much united, and became more and more so. In my Oxford life I now became very studious, which I had never been before, and retiring ; preyed 24 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ISAAC WILLIAMS. upon by secret shame and sorrow, in the new light in which I viewed myself. It was at the next Easter, on going to Southrop, that I met, for companions there during that vacation, Hubert Cornish, Henry Ryder — the eldest son of the bishop — and Sir George Prevost. With the last I became, from the very first, great friends, and have continued to be so ever since. And thus, at Oriel, a college in which I had chiefly lived from the very first, I fell into an entirely new society, which was mostly composed of those who came from private tutors, and had not been at any public school — Anderson (now Sir C), Boyle, 1 Robert and Samuel Wilberforce, and Henry Ryder. But Froude was not of this set. I do not remember hearing of Pusey at this time, except that shortly after I went 1 Father of the present Earl of Glasgow.— (Editor.) FIRST ACQUAINTANCE WITH NEWMAN. 25 to Oxford, I heard of him as a man who ought to have a first class made for him by himself, he being so superior to every one else in the mass of information he had acquired. Newman had been a scholar at Trinity before, but had left it, and had been elected a Fellow of Oriel before I was entered at Oxford. Once I remember to have met him, when I was an under- graduate. I was invited to breakfast with William Churton, a Fellow of Oriel, and the only person I met was Newman. He did not notice me, and was talking all the while with Churton, on the subject of serving churches, and how much they would allow him for a Sunday. He had then a less refined look about him, than when I knew him afterwards. I often alluded to this occasion of meeting, but could not in any way bring it to his recol- lection. It is so often that the younger 26 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ISAAC WILLIAMS. notices and remembers his elders, while they do not recollect him. Prevost * men- tioned that Newman talked to him with great admiration of Lord Byron as a poet at their high table at Oriel, where the 1 I remember this conversation very well, and it seems due to Cardinal Newman to explain, that we talked principally about the siege of Corinth, which had interested me very much, and which he also thought much superior in its moral tone to most, if not all, of Lord Byron's other poems, though even there he is delighting to make a hero of a bad man. But he appeared to think that Lord Byron's great excellence as a poet was his command of language. He asked me to take a walk with him next day, when we talked upon religious subjects, and I remember that he spoke about the gradual revelation of great truths in the Old Testament, especially of the resur- rection of the dead. I remember also hearing him preach about this time at the little old church of St. Clement's, just over Magdalen Bridge. All that I can recall of that sermon, was that he spoke in it of the clergy as exposed to special trials and dangers like the officers in an army, against whom the enemy are sure especially to direct their fire. Surely this was in some measure fulfilled in himself; at least, so it seems to me. — (Editor's note.) JOHN KEBLE AND HURRELL FROUDE. 27 Fellows and the gentlemen Commoners dined together. This is all I remember concerning him in any way at that time. No one has had deeper influence for good than Keble, even far beyond what is known ; for many of far other opinions, such as Dr. Arnold, yet derived from his influence what good they had. But in his intercourse then with us, almost school- boys as we were, there was such an absence of all authority or preaching of religion that it might have been asked where all this transforming power was, when there appeared nothing but affectionate play- fulness. Independent of this wonderful spell which love and humility have, I will mention one instance of things not for- gotten. Froude told me many years after that Keble once, before parting from him, seemed to have something on his mind which he wished to say, but shrunk from 28 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ISAAC WILLIAMS. saying. At last, while waiting, I think, for a coach, he said to him before parting, " Froude, you said one day that Law's 'Serious Call ' was a clever" (or "pretty," I forget which) " book ; it seemed to me as if you had said the day of judgment would be a pretty sight." This speech, Froude told me, had a great effect on his after- life ; and I observed that in the published letters in " Froude' s Remains," he twice alludes to it. The mention of this book reminds me of another circumstance. Robert Wilberforce, who spent one long vacation there with us, did not feel towards Keble as we did, at that time, having been brought up in an opposite school ; he observed one day, "What a strange person Keble is ; there is ' Law's Serious Call/ instead of leaving it about to do people good, I see he reads it and puts it out of the way, hiding it in a drawer." The J. KEBLE AND H. D. RYDER. 29 same reality in religion and self-discipline, to the rejection of appearances and all pretension, had a remarkable effect on Ryder. He also had been brought up in a strict evangelical school of the better kind ; and on one occasion got up and left a college party in consequence of something that Froude had said that seemed to him to be of a light kind. But when he after- wards came to know the deep self-humilia- tion and depth of devotion there was in Froude's character, which was engaged in the discipline of the heart, he became so shocked with himself and his own opinions, that he adopted the opposite course. So that Keble once said of him, " Hypocrites are of two kinds : some endeavour to appear better than they are, and others worse, and Ryder is the latter." But what Ryder said was, " The idea of my setting myself up for better than others, who are so 30 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ISAAC WILLIAMS. infinitely better than myself!" The fact is that Keble made humility the one great study of his life — there was such a reality and truth about him that even good men of an opposite school in religion appeared to one as counterfeits, when one was used to him ; and one felt one's self hollow from the contrast. It was in August, 1825, that I first went with Froude into Devonshire. We went by a steamer from Cowes to Plymouth, as described in a letter in " Froude's Remains" (part I., vol. i., p. 181). From Totnes, w T e walked up the Dart by Dartington House to the Parsonage — that place which ever since has been to me dearer than my native vales ; of which I always say, " Ille terrarum mihi praeter omnes Angulus ridet." The Froudes were eight in family, and the Archdeacon became a great friend. But the people DARTINGTON. 31 after my own heart were at Dartington House. For although the Champernownes were altogether different in natural character from the Kebles, yet there was this same attractive charm in them also to me at that time, in that they were so natural and unworldly, and therefore, in contrast to my Harrow life, so refreshing. We often spent the evening on the Dart, and drank tea on the Island. Bishop Carey came at that time to the Parsonage, with Dr. Bull. With the Archdeacon and Hurrell we rode along the coast, being very hospitably entertained at different houses ; and at last from the Holds worths' house at Dart- mouth we came up the river Dart by boat. My mother used to say she always liked my being in Devonshire, as my letters from there showed I was more happy than anywhere else. It was about this time that my studies 32 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ISAAC WILLIAMS. at Oxford came to a sudden and entire check. I had proceeded so well in my classics, by Keble's assistance, that I thought I was well up to what was required for a first class ; and from a foolish ambition, and against Keble's advice, I undertook to read for a first class in mathematics also. They had always been my great aversion, but by resolutely undertaking them, I soon got to like mathematics very much, and had made some progress. I was reading at that time very hard, and rising at four o'clock, I think, every morning. But, being unwell, I went to London to consult Abernethey, who told me on no account to look into any book whatever. This was to me very unfortunate and ill advice ; for, such intense study and so great a weight of reading on my mind being thus suddenly stopped, my mind turned to prey upon itself, and I became, FIRST ENGLISH POEM. 33 in consequence, very ill for many years. But it was perhaps so providentially ordered that a soul, made conscious of sin through the means of a divinely-sent guide and instructor, should not be allowed to hide itself in the eager pursuits of literary objects, but be thrown upon itself, unnerved and checked for some years. A poem on the subject of this illness, written at Cwm 1 in 1826, was, in some sense, the first poem I had written in English ; what little I had done before were attempts to translate into English what I had written in Latin on leaving Harrow. About this period I spent my time with Prevost at Belmont, and with Keble, who then for a short time had the curacy of Hursley 2 (I think at this time I saw the poet Southey, in Hursley Church), and was sometimes 1 Cwmcynfelin, Cardiganshire. 2 Of which he was afterwards for many years vicar. 34 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ISAAC WILLIAMS. at Dartington Parsonage. Prevost, this summer of 1826, came to Cwm and was engaged to my sister ; and afterwards Froude came there too, and gives an account of his stay there in his published journal, 1 where I am mentioned under the letter I, and Prevost under that of P. All this time I was very unwell and preying on my own mind. I went to Oxford to reside my bachelor's term, and lived with Sir Charles Anderson, and saw much of Froude, who was very kind to me. I went to Dartington with the Archdeacon 2 from Oxford, and spent the Easter there. After this, I continued unwell in Wales, till Prevost and my sister were married ; and, on their taking the curacy of Bisley, they came as far as Hereford to meet me, and after staying at Glo ster for Prevost's 1 "Froude's Remains," part L, vol. i., pp. 13-24. a Archdeacon Froude, Rector of Dartington. WINDRUSH — " THE RIVER'S BANK" 35 ordination, we went to Chalford, in Bisley parish, and became acquainted with Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Keble. After staying there three months, my sister was ordered to Hyeres, in the south of France, for the winter, and I continued in Bisley parish during their absence, to look . after the poor, although not yet ordained. My mother went with them. It was about this time that the sonnets, called " The Golden Valley " in the " Thoughts in Past Years," were written — and so named from the valley of that name near Chalford. In September, 1829, 1 went with Thomas Keble to see the curacy of Windrush, the curacy on which he had himself been ordained fourteen years before. I was ordained on this at the following Christmas, and lived there for two years with James Davies, my vicar, who has been my most esteemed friend ever since. I was here 36 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ISAAC WILLIAMS. thrown upon myself, nothing to excite my vanity or love of society — and the sermons I wrote during that time are most simple, but better I think in rjOos than any since. This is the place spoken of as the River's Bank in the " Thoughts in Past Years/' At this time — about the year 1829 — I became first acquainted with the Parisian Breviary, with which I was very much struck, as was also John Keble, to whom I showed the book at Fairford, which was but a ride from Windrush. I was so taken with the hymns, that I translated several at that time, with no idea of publication. The poems 1 I wrote at 1 December 6, 1859. It is curious how things were providentially tending in various directions towards Catholic principles. Prevost had brought back from Paris the four volumes of the Parisian Breviary, which I had at Windrush, and which took me, and John Keble too, so much by surprise. About the same time, Palmer's " Origines Liturgies" were being published, and Palmer himself came to reside INFLUENCE OF T. KEBLE'S SERMONS. 37 Windrush were much more simple and unpretending than what I had written in Bisley parish the year before. This was partly from the humiliation I then felt, but chiefly from the influence of the simplicity of Thomas Keble and the effect his simple sermons had on my mind ; so that in Oxford; and Bishop Lloyd, then the Divinity Professor, was giving lectures on the Prayer-book, and referring men to the sources from whence the Prayer-book was taken, and in particular to the breviaries, on account of which copies of them were procured from a Roman Catholic bookseller in London. I have Froude's Prayer-book, a large edition interleaved, which he used for that purpose at that time. By-the-bye, when I was translating those breviary hymns for my personal edification at Windrush, there prevailed a general horror among Church people of unauthorized hymns being sung in church, and I remember I put them often into unrhythmical harsh metres to prevent this. At the same time, J. Keble was translating his Psalms, which he was very anxious should not be introduced into any church service till he had got the Archbishop's or Bishop's sanction, as the authority of the Church. — (Author's note.) 38 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ISAAC WILLIAMS. Newman afterwards, when I was his curate, said it would be better if I was more myself in my sermons, and less like Thomas Keble. Mrs. Greenaway, my parishioner at Little Barrington, also told me the same ; for I had sometimes written a sermon myself, but preached one of T. Keble's instead, from distrust of myself, and thinking so much more highly of him. But this was a mistake ; every body succeeds best as himself. When I was at Windrush, there occurred some agrarian riots, and every one was much alarmed and panic struck ; John Keble rode with the mob, fearlessly and good-naturedly, entreating them not to demolish the farmer's machines ; they put forth a methodist preacher to answer him, as he stood on a machine begging them to desist. He wrote a little tract on the subject, in the shape of a dialogue, to R. J. WILBERFORCE. 39 express what might have been said by himself and the preacher. About this time, or a little later, he rode over one day to Windrush, with Froude and Robert Wilberforce, to speak about a case of conscience. Lord Brougham had offered R. W. a living which Froude thought he ought not to accept. Keble and I thought there was no principle sacrificed in his doing so, as he had been used to speak highly of Brougham, and did not differ from him in principle, as we did. Froude told us that R. W. now talked very much like a High Churchman, but he did not know that he meant much by it. This I mention, as R. W. appears, since that time, so very much improved ; good principles were sinking into him more and more deeply. 1 Before the end 1 This was written several years before R. J. Wilberforce's defection to Rome, which was followed not long after by his death. — (Editor.) 40 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ISAAC WILLIAMS. of two years passed at Windrush I was elected Fellow of Trinity, and was given to understand that I must reside in the following October, and succeed to a tutor- ship there at once. On this I gave up my curacy, and in the interval of those few months was attacked for the first time with the asthma, which has never since left me. My life at Windrush was very calm and subduing. I studied Hebrew, which I have not since resumed, and Chrysostom, both as devotional reading ; and though living in the house with my vicar, and having our meals together, yet he was not then a companion, for our rule was always to walk in opposite directions in the parishes under our charge ; and, having three churches to serve between us, we were never in church together. I lived low, my life was monotonous and very "THE CHRISTIAN YEAR." 41 good for me ; but the relief was great when I could get over to see the Prevosts at Chalford, and John Keble at Fairford, which was not very distant — I think about twelve miles. " The Christian Year " had then been published for some years. I remember, when it was first in the press, coming with Keble out of Baxter's printing-office, when Keble said, " It will be still-born, I know very well ; but it is only in obedience to my father's wishes that I publish it, and that is some comfort." I was then in Oxford, and when it came out, and Keble sent it to me, I was going with Prevost (it was before his marriage) to stay at Llandrindod Wells, where there was a large boarding-house, and the people all lived together. And, being in great want of books in wet weather, after they had been reading Lord Byron together, a G 42 A UTOBIOGRAPHY OF ISAAC WILLIAMS. large party named Whitaker and their friends requested to see my book — " The Christian Year" — which was then per- fectly fresh in my hands from the printer and the author, and to my surprise they were greatly delighted with it, especially Miss Whitaker, the sister of a Harrow friend. I mention this as the first indi- cation of the popularity of " The Christian Year," which I do not think I myself at that time anticipated ; certainly Froude did not. 1 On that occasion of staying at Llandrindod the vicar of our parish was there — Mr. Hughes, of Aberystwith, a Puritanical Welsh preacher. He had, for a short time, the curacy of Dedington, near Oxford ; and speaking to me of Oxford, he looked grave and displeased 1 Nor did the editor. He remembers buying ten copies of the second edition to encourage the sale of it. — (Editor's note.) NEWMAN'S EARLY PRINCIPLES. 43 at the mention of Keble of Oriel as being my friend, and said it would be a great thing for me to know a most promising and excellent person there, Mr. Newman. They had both, Newman and Mr. Hughes, belonged to the Church Missionary Society, and it was plain that he, at that time, considered Newman to be of his own Calvinistic party. I was myself unac- quainted with Newman at the time of my leaving Windrush for Oxford ; but I have a letter from Thomas Keble, of Bisley, about that time, in which he expresses his concern at Froude's talking of taking Newman to Fairford to see his father, on account of his liberal principles. This is a curious contrast to a letter I received from Thomas Keble about a year after- wards, strongly recommending me to avail myself of Newman's offer for me to be his curate, in order that I might 44 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ISAAC WILLIAMS. have more of the society of such a man. 1 1 December 8, 1859. — As a curious indication of the history of the changes in Newman's mind I was much struck in taking up these notes, with about a year's interval between — the former written to me as curate of Windrush, expressing dislike of Newman; the second written to me as Fellow of Trinity, so highly in admiration of him. But, on my mentioning the circumstance not long since to John Keble, he referred to his sister saying, " You see what Tom really meant — he wished you to be with Newman in order to keep him straight." Perhaps there is no more extraordinary instance of the changes which Newman has undergone than in the " Home Thoughts Abroad," which Newman published in the British Magazine on his first going to Rome with Froude in 183 1-3 2, for in those papers he expresses his astonishment at the exact and wonderful fulfilment of the prophecies that repre- sented Rome and its bishop as the Antichrist, which although he had always held, he said he never could have realized, had he not witnessed its idolatries. But the next time he visited Rome, it was as a Roman Catholic. Archdeacon Wilberforce men- tioned to me here, before he himself joined the Church of Rome, that when Fellows of Oriel together, Pusey, Froude, himself, and Newman used to meet together on Sunday evenings when Newman FIRST SERMONS AT OXFORD. 45 When I now went to reside in Oxford, in October, as college tutor, I felt what a great change had come on my mind since residing there before, on account of the influence of Bisley and Windrush ; and I found this the more on returning to the society of Froude, for I was become so much more soft and practical, and he more theoretical and speculative. The intellectual Oriel School, which had come through Whately, and in some degree infected Newman, was in the strongest contrast to that by which I had of late been trained. If my moral sense had been improved, not so the intel- lectual. And I find my Oxford sermons, for some time, were almost as simple as those at Windrush, but especially directed against the pride of intellect and the dan- used eloquently to expound the Apocalypse, taking Mede's view, that the Pope is Antichrist. — (Author's note.) 46 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ISAAC WILLIAMS. gers of theory and mere knowledge in religion, which is altogether a matter of practice. Yet this change that had been going on, from difference of circumstances, in no way lessened my friendship and intimacy with Froude, but rather increased it ; for, though naturally inclined to specu- lation, he was himself entirely of the Keble school, which in opposition to the Oriel or Whatelian, set fjOos above intellect ; for I always looked upon the combination of these two schools in Newman, who was first a disciple of Whately's and then of Keble's, as the cause of such disastrous effects, which have now, in him, united German rationalism with the Church of Rome, in their full developments. Living at that time so much with Froude, I was now in consequence, for the first time, brought into intercourse with Newman ; we almost daily walked and dined to- NEWMAN AND CMS, 47 gether. Newman and Froude were, just then, turned out of their tutorships at Oriel (together with Robert Wilberforce, who left Oxford for his living of East Farleigh). Their course had, as yet, been chiefly academical ; but, now released from college affairs, their thoughts were more open to the state of the Church. Our principles then were of the Caroline Di- vines, thinking much of the Divine right of kings, and the like ; but we approached perhaps more to those of the non-jurors. Newman was now becoming a Churchman ; the first thing he did publicly, which marked this change of sentiment, had been a pamphlet on the Church Missionary Society, recommending the clergy to join it, in order that, by their numbers, they might correct that Calvinistic leaven, on account of which they were opposed to it. For this pamphlet (written in apparent 48 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ISAAC WILLIAMS. simplicity as to its effect, like No. 90 after- wards), recommending that which really would have entirely overturned that society, he was put out of their committee, but still continued to belong to the society. I was greatly charmed and delighted with Newman, who was extremely kind to me, but did not altogether trust his opinions, and although Froude was in the habit of stating things in an extreme and para- doxical manner, yet one always felt con- scious of a thorough foundation of truth and principle in him — a ground of entire confidence and agreement — but this was not so with Newman, even although one appeared more in unison with his more moderate statements. Our principles were so little those of Newman, up to this time, that he had been the cause of Hawkins being elected Provost of Oriel, instead of Keble. Newman, indeed, has sometimes NEWMAN AND THE KEBLES. 49 explained this to me by saying that he had looked on J. Keble like something one would put under a glass, and put on one's chimney-piece to admire, but as too unworldly for business and the things of this life. This was because he did not know him. 1 But certainly their principles were then quite opposite. But at this time he was coming to look to Keble altogether as he received him second-hand through Froude. Newman had a peculiar power of seizing intellectually the fjOos and principles of another, and making them his own, as it were on trial. I was struck with this afterwards in a remarkable manner by the way in which he learned through me the y^w/xat, as he called them, 1 John Keble always laboured to keep clear of secular affairs, but when forced by duty to engage in them, he was a very good man of business. I have heard Isaac Williams say so, and all I remember con- firms this statement of his. — (Editor's note.) II 50 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ISAAC WILLIAMS. of Thomas Keble of Bisley, his character and principles; so that, at one time, when I walked daily with him, and we conversed on these subjects, I found the same views drawn out and expressed in his own way in his sermon at St. Mary's on the follow- ing Sunday. The first volume which he published is almost entirely made up of these, and will be found to differ on this account from his succeeding volumes as more practical. It has this marked dis- tinguishable character, owing to this cir- cumstance, and I always looked upon that volume as Bisley, passing through me, and appearing developed by Newman in St. Mary's pulpit. It was in this manner that Newman was now imbibing John Keble, through Froude, when I came to reside in Oxford. Keble's name with us always cut short every argument, so in- stinctively did we look to his authority. KEBLE AND FROUDE. 51 But I always thought Froude an unfair exponent of Keble's opinions — they were stated by him in a manner so much his own, so startling and original, and put in so extreme a light, that I could hardly recognize them as the same — so different was his from Keble's manner of expressing himself. 1 Things at Oxford at that time were 1 Froude used to defend his startling way of putting facts and arguments on the ground that it was the only way to rouse people and get their attention, and he said that when you had once done this, you might modify your statements. There is, of course, some truth in this, but it always seemed, and still seems, to me a dangerous line. John Keble could not do so ; his great humility and diffidence would prevent it, and that strict conscientiousness which hindered him from ever willingly overstating any fact, or pressing any argument beyond what he saw it really did prove. In that respect, as in other things also, he was a follower of Bishop Butler. I remember well hearing him say that Bishop Wilson's books were the best for people in general, and Bishop Butler's for stronger and more cultivated intellects. — (Editor's note.) 52 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ISAAC WILLIAMS. very dead. I made it a point conscien- tiously to attend every University sermon, but it was a great trial of patience, and on Saints' days I was often nearly the only one in church listening to the usual hack preacher, who was reading some old sermon, not necessarily in connection with the Saint's day, earning his five guineas in a manner unedifying and unprofitable to all but himself. As a proof of this I remember this preacher — Mr. Hughes, vicar of St. Clement's, a former scholar of Trinity — said to Short, in our common room, " I wonder what Williams admires so much in me ; he is the only person in the University who comes to my sermons on Saints' days. It is very complimentary of him, but it puts me to a little trouble, for I am obliged to look out for sermons on the day." Thus was I at that time the only solitary silent witness for the CLOSER ACQUAINTANCE WITH NEWMAN. 53 observance of these holy days, i.e. about the year 1832. Afterwards we got these Saints' days sermons, which were in the gift of the bursars of colleges, very often given to us, and obtained the appointments for the most eminent men, often Newman, sometimes J. Keble, so that when I left Oxford the University Church was filled to overflowing on Saints' days. Froude and I seemed entirely alone, with Newman only secretly, as it were, beginning to sympathize. I became at once very much attached to Newman, won by his kindness and delighted by his good and wonderful qualities, and he proposed that I should be his curate at St. Mary's. For this my college duties would have allowed me no time ; but it was agreed that I should not do very much. And this brought me into still closer intercourse with him. I have lately heard it stated 54 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ISAAC WILLIAMS from one of Newman's oldest friends, Dr. J elf, that his mind was always essentially Jesuitical. In endeavouring to account for this statement, I can remember a strong feeling of difference I first felt on acting together with Newman, from what I had been accustomed to ; that he was in the habit of looking for effect, for what was sensibly effective, which, from the Bisley and Fairford school, I had been long habituated to avoid. I had been taught there to do one's duty in faith, and leave the effect to God, and that all the more earnestly, because there were no sym- pathies from without to answer. There was a felt, but unexpressed, dissonance of this kind ; but perhaps it became after- wards harmonized as we acted together. What was at that time most congenial to myself were the poor at Littlemore ; it was a detached country village, belonging CHOLERA AT OXFORD. 55 to St. Mary's church, but two miles from Oxford, and with no church of its own at that time. Newman had then, every Thurs- day evening, a lecture there in a hired room. He on these occasions expounded some passage of Scripture. Although his ideas were usually beyond the poor, yet they were always fond of his preaching, and no doubt gained much ; but on taking this lecture from him I substituted, in my turn, the Church prayers and the reading of a sermon of Thomas Keble's. Soon after I became Newman's curate, the cholera came. It reached Oxford the last week in term, before the Long Vaca- tion. It was agreed that I should take the first half of the vacation, while Newman went away. It was an awful time, from the uncertainty, which then overhung the nature of the disease. Froude continued great part of the time with me in Oxford ; 56 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ISAAC WILLIAMS. and my father came to stay with me. Yet still in college I was alone, and when a Fellow staying up at the adjoining college, New of St. John's, died, it appeared near. We had no case at St. Mary's, but I buried three persons at St. Clement's, where it broke out violently, and the vicar had left Oxford. It was a relief to me when Newman returned. I preached on i Pet. iv. 19, 1 which sermon Newman said was a comfort to him ; and I got safely to my friends in Wales, whom I had almost despaired of seeing again. On returning to Oxford at the end of that Long Vacation (1832), Newman said that he was afraid he should be treating me very hardly, but he had a plan of leaving me with St. Mary's entirely on my hands, and going 1 " Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to Him in well-doing, as unto a faithful Creator." NEWMAN'S EARLY POEMS. 57 abroad with Froude, who had appearances of incipient consumption about him. All this was to me a great undertaking ; for, in addition to the tutorship in college, I was also to be the Dean for the ensuing year. However, it was so agreed, and they were to sail with Archdeacon Froude at the end of the year. Before parting with Newman, I showed him my little green book of English verses, sonnets, etc., which I had written at Bisley, and which Froude had mentioned to him. He told me he was, of course, delighted with them, but said they were too soft (perhaps he may have said effeminate) ; but, how- ever, they were at the time the occasion of kindling in himself the flame. And he wrote some little poem daily, which he sent home to us in letters, composed on board of ship or otherwise on his travels. His mother and two sisters were then 1 58 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ISAAC WILLIAMS. living in a cottage by Littlemore, called Rose Hill, and I saw them very constantly in the care of the parish, and in conse- quence of hearing his letters to them read to me, I have not by me so many letters from him, as I participated in his letters to his family at the time. All these poems have since appeared in the " Lyra Apos- tolica." I have mentioned that they were sent home to us at that time in his letters. I may here add that there was one exception to this, in that most beautiful little poem, " Lead, kindly Light, amid the encircling gloom." This I saw for the first time in the British Magazine, and said to Newman, " Whose poem is that ? John Keble's, is it not ? It is not like you ; but if it is yours I will tell you when it was written. It was when you were coming home ill." He answered, "You are quite right. It was on board FRANCIS NEWMAN. 59 the vessel from Sicily, when I was just recovering, and very weak." And this accounts for a tone in that poem which is unlike Newman, more subdued and touch- ing. But yet I have heard it noticed by Copeland that it ends unlike the resigna- tion of the Psalmist in Ps. xliii. At this time, while Newman was abroad, his brother Frank also was away in the East, having gone on a wild, enthusiastic expedition to Bagdad ; and when his family were receiving or expecting letters from both brothers, I was struck with the contrast between the two. While our Newman, the eldest, had so much poetry, love of scenery and associations of place and country, and domestic and filial affec- tion, these qualities appeared to me want- ing in his brother, who would have passed by Jerusalem and Nazareth without turn- ing aside to look on them, or the most 60 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ISAAC WILLIAMS. beautiful object in nature, or, at all events, would not deign to mention them, nor to cast any longing, lingering look to his home. I notice this contrast the rather because time has since shown the same basis of constitutional character in both, so much so, that while pursuing opposite courses, they seem one and the same, as if two ships were started on a voyage round the world in opposite directions and both split at last upon the same rock. 1 The domestic and poetic and social element in our Newman's character 1 Dece7iiber 8, 1859. — In Dr. Moberly's book on "The Love of God" the two Newmans are compared together, and as a Fellow of Balliol he had opportune ties of knowing Frank Newman, no doubt, and Froude also, who slightly knew Frank Newman, and had the greatest admiration for his talents, in mathematics especially ; yet I cannot but think that the differences between the two brothers were very great and impor- tant. It is remarkable that one family should have had two such brothers as John and Frank Newman ; and another family Hurrell Froude and his brother Anthony. — (Author's note.) NEWMAN IN DOMESTIC LIFE. 61 appeared to me providentially intended to correct that constitutional restlessness of intellect, that want of balance and repose in the soul, which appears the malady of both brothers. But our Newman, partly from circumstances, and partly under the false guise of mortification, has stifled those his domestic affections, thereby greatly increasing this his intellectual malady ; whereas I never thought so highly of him, and he never seemed to me, so saintlike and hicdi in his character as when he was with his mother and sisters. The softness and repose of his character then came out, and so corrected that restless intellect to which he has been a prey. 1 For his temp- 1 December 8, 1859. — I was making these same remarks to Bishop Forbes last summer at Pusey's at Christ Church. He seemed much struck with it, but I think Pusey did not quite assent. However, this in no way changed my conviction. Bishop Forbes was mentioning that a friend of his had been lately wall 62 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ISAAC WILLIAMS. tations were peculiar and of a high and spiritual nature, so that what would have been a course of self-denying discipline to others was not so to him. But these reflections are anticipating the course of this narrative. My own feelings on their absence are expressed in a sonnet in the " Thoughts in Past Years," " Behind are Ocean's Gates," etc. Froude and his father returned to England, and left Newman, who was bent on seeing Sicily, and the circumstance which I most remember about that time was a conversation with Froude which was the first commencement of " the Newman at the Oratory at Egbaston, and was giving a curious account of his life ; but what struck me was, how like Newman it all was, though the Bishop did not know this ; I mean Newman's living with persons younger than himself, a party reflecting his own opinions, his constraint in public, his entirely throwing it off with friends in private afterwards. — (Author's note.) THE TRACTS BEGUN. 63 Tracts for the Times." He returned full of energy and of a prospect of doing something for the Church, and we walked in the Trinity College Gardens and dis- cussed the subject. He said in his manner, " Isaac, we must make a row in the world. Why should we not ? Only consider what the Peculiars, i.e. the Evangelicals have done with a few half truths to work upon ! And with our principles, if we set reso- lutely to work, we can do the same." l I said " I have no doubt we can make a noise, and may get people to join us, but shall we make them really better Christians ? If they take up our principles in a hollow way as the Peculiars (this was a name Froude had given the Low Church party) have done theirs, what good shall we do ? " To this Froude said, " Church 1 All this I have since expressed in a poem in the " Thoughts in Past Years."— (Author's note.) 64 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ISAAC WILLIAMS. principles, forced on people's notice, must work for good. However, we must try; and Newman and I are determined to set to work as soon as he returns, and you must join with us. We must have short tracts, and letters in the British Magazine, and verses, and these you can do for us — and get people to preach sermons on the Apostolical Succession and the like. And let us come and see old Palmer (i.e. the author of the ' Origines Liturgicae ' ), and get him to do something." We then called on Palmer, who was one of the very few in Oxford — indeed the only one at that time — who sympathized with us, and, although he did not altogether understand Froude, or our ways and views — the less so as he was not himself an Oxford, but a Dublin man — yet he was extremely hearty in the cause ; looking more to external, visible union and strength than "BRITISH MAGAZINES 65 we did, for we only had at heart certain principles. We, i.e. Froude, Keble, and myself, immediately began to send some verses to the British Magazine, since pub- lished as the " Lyra Apostolica." This, indeed, Newman did not like, when he returned, for he wished to have had throughout the management. I also, the same summer, sent to the British Maga- zine translations from the Parisian Bre- viary which I had by me. Mr. Rose, 1 who conducted that magazine, I liked, and respected extremely, but never saw him but once or twice. We were very few then in number, and any communica- tion to the British Magazine, in favour of Church principles, was at once identified with their author, although anonymous. \Hugh James Rose, Rector of Hadleigh, Essex ; — a good and wise man, who took a great interest in the Church Movement from the beginning, although himself a Cambridge man.— (Editor.) K 66 A UTOBIOGRAPHY OF ISAAC WILLIAMS. The Long Vacation had commenced, and Newman had not only not returned, but his letters, which before had been very frequent, had for some time suddenly ceased. Day passed after day, and week after week, and his mother, sisters, and myself, daily looked on each other with blank dismay, when at last a line came, saying he had been very ill, but was better, and was returning from Sicily. He had been taken by the fever of the country, with no friend near ; and had proceeded some way, feeling very ill, but refreshed (he said) by fields of camomile, which he afterwards found was used as the great remedy for that fever of the country. Although his life was in im- minent danger, yet, he said, he was sustained by a strong feeling on his mind, which never left him, that he should be spared to work out the conceptions he had "LYRA APOSTOLICAL 67 formed for the Church. Such an idea would, of itself, have much assisted a re- covery even as a natural cause. It was then, on returning from Sicily in a very feeble state, that he wrote those verses " Lead, kindly Light," etc. From this time forth, after Newman's return, I was thrown more and more entirely into his society for about seven years, Froude waning more and more away, and disappearing from Oxford, being obliged to go to Barbadoes for a milder climate. The poems (since published as the " Lyra Apostolica " ) appeared monthly in the British Magazine ; and in addition to those which I contributed to it, I also continued to send some of my own to the British Magazine, together with transla- tions from the breviary, and occasional letters. When, after the poems contained under that head had appeared in the 68 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ISAAC WILLIAMS. British Magazine, Newman published the " Lyra Apostolica," he got Samuel Wilber- force — now the Bishop of Oxford — to review it, as one who would do it in a popular manner. Newman was then much annoyed with the reflections of the review on himself — and this was the cause, I consider, of his never writing a verse afterwards. 1 Indeed, I have heard Miss Keble observe that it appeared to have stopped in Newman what Providence seemed to have designed as a natural vent to ardent and strong feelings ; whereas had it not met with that untimely dis- couragement he would probably have continued to write poetry, as he had then begun, to the profit of himself and us all. 1 This was written in 185 1. I do not know whether Newman wrote any more poetry before Isaac Williams's death, in 1865, but we all know that he did write poetry of very great power afterwards, especially the " Dream of Gerontius." — (Editor.) SAMUEL WILBERFORCE. 69 For, she said, her brother would never have written verses were it not for the encouragement he met with in his own family. Samuel Wilberforce was not much acquainted with Newman, though proud of knowing so remarkable a person. 1 I 1 December 4, 1859. — The Bishop of Oxford seems wonderfully improved* in depth and reality of character of late, his alienation from Court, the troubles of his office, his family trials and afflictions, his nearest relations dropping off to the Church of Rome, his intimacy with Prevost, his acquaintance at one time with Copeland, who had the curacy of Garsington, — all these things seemed to have worked upon him for good. And, indeed, even in his brother Robert Wilberforce, the Archdeacon, I observed something of a similar change before he joined the Church of Rome. Religion and religious principle appeared in him more and more real than they used to do at one time. Allowances must be made for a certain hereditary Wilberforce character, but they were very estimable persons. The younger brother, Henry, was (as Froude used to express it) " caught younger." He * I am persuaded that had the author lived to see the support given by Bishop Wilberforce to Bishop Gray, he would have expressed himself much more decidedly. — (Editor. ) 70 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ISAAC WILLIAMS. had up to this time no acquaintance with Pusey, but he would (now that we had lost Froude from Oxford) join Newman and myself in our walks. They had been Fellows of Oriel together, and Newman was the senior. But Pusey's presence always checked his lighter and un- restrained mood ; and I was myself silenced by so awful a person. Yet I always found in him something most con- genial to myself — a nameless something which was wanting even in Newman and, I might almost add, even in Keble. But Pusey at this time was not one of us, and I have some recollection of a con- was a college pupil of Newman's, and looked up to him with something of an idolatrous veneration. The Bishop of Oxford said, in this room, " I often told Henry that he was not himself when with Newman. He loses himself and his own mind." Yet a little while before Henry joined the Church of Rome, Newman said to him, " My temptation is to Scepti- cism," a very remarkable confession, which the Bishop mentioned to me. — (Author's note.) PUSEY'S TRACT ON BAPTISM. 71 versation which was the occasion of his joining us. He said, smiling to Newman and wrapping his gown around him, as he used to do, " I think you are too hard upon ' the Peculiars ' as you call them (i.e. the Low Church party) ; you should con- ciliate them. I am thinking of writing a letter myself with that purpose," or rather I think it was of printing a letter which had been the result of private cor- respondence. " Well," said Newman, " suppose you let us have it for one of the Tracts ? " " Oh no," said Pusey, " I will not be one of you." This was said in a playful manner, and before we parted Newman said, " Suppose you let us have that letter of yours, which you intend writing, and attach your own name or signature to it ? You would then not be mixed up with us, or be in any way responsible for the Tracts." "Well," 72 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ISAAC WILLIAMS. Pusey said, at last, " if you will let me do that, I will." It was this circumstance of Pusey attaching his initials to that tract, that furnished the Recoi'd newspaper and the low Church party with his name, which they at once attached to us all. And indeed that conciliating tract on Baptism seemed to aggravate them more than the rest. Thus the circumstance of Pusey's wishing to stand aloof from us, as a party, served to connect him ever afterwards most intimately with us, as if he were the head of the party. Mrs. Pusey was alive at that time, and I liked her also, which was an additional bond between us, but I have no recollec- tion of anything then moved between us on Church matters. They once asked me to dine with them alone, when by some mistake I did not go ; and at another time I remember a large party at dinner there, DEATH OF NEWMAN'S MOTHER. 73 where was Dr. Hook and a great many Churchmen. I remember, too, Mrs. Pusey coming to me at Mrs. Newman's funeral, when I read the service over her in St. Mary's, at which we were all much affected. Mrs. Newman's death was rather sudden ; she was taken ill on the day of her daughter's marriage. Poor Newman was very much overcome by it, he seemed so much attached to her and his sisters, and leaned entirely on myself, clinging to my arm at the funeral in great distress. In the depth of his affliction he said, " I have very much to tell you, but I cannot now. Some other time." But he never recurred to the subject. 1 His mother, a 1 I have found amongst the author's papers the following letter, evidently written by him just at this very time : — " My Dearest Newman, "I am vexed at being obliged to go away on these days, when I might have seen a little of you. L 74 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ISAAC WILLIAMS. little time before, had taken great interest in the building of the church at Little- more, for which reason Newman put up a monument to her in that church. It was considered quite a model of a church at the time, though built hastily. Oak- This sermon * was a comfort to me at the time I heard it, so I send it in case it might be so to any of you. I hope, my dear N., we may all be able to raise our minds to think of these our friends as something better than their poor remains, and for our own re- grets for what we wish might have been different, may we not find a cure in the f Travrore vTrlp irdvroiv evxapL(TTe?T€ (which I think is given us more than Once), iv Kvptw rj/xihv 'Irjo-ov Xpio-T to correct what might appear to be going too far from our own Church in " Froude's Remains/' Another subject on which I put together my thoughts at this time was the Epistles of St. Paul, about which I wrote in an article for Newman in the British Critic, 94 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ISAAC WILLIAMS. in a review on Mr. Forsters book, on the Epistle to the Hebrews. Newman also pressed me into an article on Keble's " Psalter," but I was not satisfied with my performance. About the same time as the tract on " Reserve," I published " The Cathedral," in pursuance of the same great object we had undertaken, and after that the " Thoughts in Past Years," consisting mostly of poems, written long before " The Cathedral," and I always thought with more poetry in them. Many concurring circumstances had now tended to strengthen Church principles. The attempt of the Government to force the University to receive Dissenters, which was thrown back by the unanimous action of the whole body. I remember Denison, the present Bishop of Salisbury, meeting Newman in Parker the bookseller's shop, and saying, A STAND FOR CHURCH PRINCIPLES. 95 " To make a stand against the Govern- ment by a handful of men here is absurd. What do they care for you ? They will only despise you." But the event was very different. At that time we were determined to go by faith and not mind the chance of failure, and the stand so gathered strength that we had a meeting of the University in Magdalen Common Room, with Burton, the Divinity Pro- fessor, in the chair, and a determination in favour of a strong simultaneous resistance became almost unanimous. I think there were but two dissentients, and they did ultimately sign our protest or appeal. Of these Jacobson, since the Divinity Pro- fessor, was one. And Oxford, from the strength of principles shown there, was becoming a rallying point for the whole kingdom. John Keble's assize sermon before the judges against the Latitudi- 96 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ISAAC WILLIAMS. narian government was thought indiscreet and fruitless. But these things were not so. I watched from the beginning, and saw among ourselves greater dangers than those from without, which I attempted to obviate by publishing the "Plain Sermons." I attempted in vain to get the Kebles to publish, in order to keep pace with Newman, and so to maintain a more practical turn in the movement. I re- member C. Cornish 1 coming to me and saying, as we walked in Trinity Gardens, " People are a little afraid of being carried away by Newman's brilliancy ; they want more of the steady sobriety of the Kebles infused into the movement to keep us safe. We have so much sail, we want 1 Charles L. Cornish, Fellow of Exeter College, a man on whose judgment Isaac Williams placed great reliance. — (Editor.) "PLAIN sermons:' 97 ballast." And the effect of the " Plain Sermons " was at the time very quieting ; they soothed the alarms of many. Sewell made good use of them in a very telling article in the Quarterly ; Maitland, of Gloucester, said, " Well, there is surely no popery there." I thought of pub- lishing these sermons, in connection with the Tracts, and with Newman's con- currence undertook it, being actuated with fears for the result of Newman's restless intellectual theories. I wrote the preface for those sermons, expressing my apprehensions ; but this advertisement was so altered at Bisley by Jeffreys 1 and others, as to have been quite spoilt, as things are which are written by one person and altered by others. I began at first with the Kebles, especially Thomas Keble 1 Student of Christ Church, then Curate of Bisley, now Vicar of Hawkhurst, Hon. Canon of Canterbury. 9 8 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ISAAC WILLIAMS. of Bisley, whose sermons are so very simple and striking. Pusey was after- wards glad to afford me a whole year of his sermons. Newman said it would swamp my boat; but it was not so. It served my purpose. I joined Copeland with myself as joint-editor, who entered into my views. Newman afterwards, when I had left Oxford and lived at Bisley, wrote to say he should be glad to afford a year's sermons in the series. In this I acquiesced, and felt sure that he would fall in with my wishes, by sending the least controversial of his sermons ; and so much was this the case, that I have thought they must have been some of his earliest written sermons, so quiet is their tone. In first undertaking the publication of these " Plain Sermons," I had no en- couragement from any one — not even from " PLAIN SERMONS:' 99 John Keble. Acquiescence was all I could gain. But I have heard John Keble mention it as a saying of Judge Coleridge, long before the Tracts for the Times were thought of, " If you want to propagate your principles you should lend your sermons, the clergy would then preach them and adopt your opinions/' Now this has been much the effect of publishing the " Plain Sermons." 1 1 December 13, 1859. — It was curious to observe the gradual accessions of strength and indications of progress in Oxford. There were here and there oppo- nents changing their minds. Ward, who was always walking with Stanley, and apparently full of arguments against us, attended Newman's week-day lectures in St. Mary's ante-chapel to refute them ; preachers at St. Mary's were changing their tone, and especially preachers from the country coming up to attack us in the university pulpit, not at all knowing the sub- jects or our principles and views ; add to this persons coming to see us from Ireland and Scotland interested in our movement, but more especially from America — one a dissenting preacher and D.D., with whom Newman and Pusey were much taken, more than ico AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ISAAC WILLIAMS. Nothing had as yet impaired my friend- ship with Newman. We lived daily very I was myself; his abhorrence of or popular shrinking from the blacks made me distrust him from the first — others, good churchmen, as John Williams, and afterwards Dr. Potter, who came to me at Bisley, both since bishops, and other interesting Americans. Copeland has never ceased to inveigh against the Heads of Houses as the causes of so much mischief, and indeed of all the evil that ensued by their irritating opposition ; but I doubt whether harm was done by it. Though disturbed of course by a self-denying religious reformation, and jealous of the influence obtained by it, yet notwithstanding, there were also in some cases grounds for their distrust. But the condemnation of Dr. Pusey's sermon by the six doctors (Hawkins, Symons, Ogilvie, Jenkyns, Jelf, and Godfrey Faussett) was very inexcusable ; it was the cause of my voting against Symons's appointment as vice-chancellor. Nemesis, however, came on them when Pusey at last threw his broad shield of protection over them (to save the annihilation of the hebdomadal board), by a large vote of convocation against Gladstone and the Government. But this was long after. One curious instance of tergiversation in the opposite way took place in our friend Golightly. He was strongly with us, had taken a house in Oxford in which he said he should hide us when persecution arose ; but he soon himself became our chief persecutor. DISTRUST OF NEWMAN. 101 much together; but I had a secret un- easiness, not from anything said or implied, but from a want of repose about his cha- racter, that I thought he would start into some line different from Keble and Pusey, though I knew not in what direction it would be. Often after walking together, when leaving him, have I heard a deep secret sigh which I could not interpret. It seemed to speak of weariness of the world, and of aspirations for something he wished to do and had not yet done. Of the putting out of Church principles When on the point of becoming Newman's curate, he preached a sermon in some church in Oxford where Pusey was present, who (he told me) most kindly wrote to him to point out all the mistakes he had made in his sermon; Newman, on hearing of this, said he could not be his curate, and from that time even to this present day he lives in Oxford the active watcher and accuser against Church principles, and at present the accuser of Bishop Wilberforce of Oxford. — (Author's note.) io2 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ISAAC WILLIAMS. he often spoke as of an experiment which he did not know whether the Church of England would bear, and knew not what would be the issue. The times one can look back upon as the brightest, were seasons of relaxation, as on Sunday even- ings ; for on Sundays we always dined together privately in each other's rooms with one or two friends. It is not merely, as on usual social meetings, that I look back on those occasions, but because such repose and relaxation seemed to me to bring out the higher and better parts of Newman's character. I allow that some- thing sarcastic and a freedom of remark would blend with such unbendings, but it was better out in playfulness than fer- menting within. But at all times there was a charm about his society which was very taking, and I do not wonder at those being carried away who had not been pre- DISTRUST OF NEWMAN. 103 viously formed, like myself, in another, or at all events, an earlier school of faith. The first secret misgiving which arose into something of distrust was when two of Newmans pupils — S. Wood, since dead, and Robert Williams (M.P. for Dorchester) — were translating and on the point of publishing the Roman Breviary (with the hymns translated by Newman) without any omissions. On Prevost's earnestly deprecating this, a dispute ensued, and I thought Newman showed some want of meekness. This, and not his opinions, weakened in some slight degree my con- fidence ; and in looking back, most inti- mately as I was united with him, I cannot remember when my prayer for him was not rather that he might be preserved from error and the dangers to which he was exposed from his peculiar tempera- ment, than for his perfection, and that I io-j. AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ISAAC WILLIAMS. might follow his example, as would have been my prayer with regard to John Keble and Pusey. But it is only on the retrospect one is sensible of this difference. It is sometimes supposed that Newman's leaving the Church of England was owing to the ill-treatment we met with in con- sequence of our principles, especially from the Heads of Houses at Oxford. Certainly Newman was very sensitive of such things, more so than the rest of us, and I think I have heard even Pusey attribute his change to it. But I doubt it. I think it more owing to his own mind. 1 And what was 1 I have heard Dr. Pusey speak of Newman as "forced out of the Church of England," and there can be no doubt, I should say, that the heads of houses adopted the line of conduct that was most calculated to goad a sensitive nature like Newman's to desperation. Nevertheless, I believe that Isaac Williams may be right in attributing his change more to what was working within him, — to his natural restless temperament. — (Editor.) DIFFICULTIES AT ST. MARY'S. 105 most important, he had the countenance of a most judicious and kind bishop, in Bishop Bagot, then Bishop of Oxford. The first circumstance that indicated this was very early — the first thing that brought Newman's name before the public. There was a pastry-cook in St. Mary's parish of the name of Jubber. Newman, on going abroad with Froude, had told me that he had in vain endeavoured to get that family baptized. The son had wished me to bap- tize him, but I found it was entirely from secular motives, to obtain a certificate. While I was still engaged in this matter, Newman returned, and soon after, one of the daughters wished to be married. This, as she persisted in continuing unbaptized, Newman refused to do. On this the newspapers made a violent outcry against him, and the old-fashioned orthodox shook their heads. Newman wrote to the bishop, p 106 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ISAAC WILLIAMS. saying, if he desired him, he would marry them, and he was a little annoyed at receiving no answer. But in the midst of this, Newman was appointed to preach the visitation sermon at St. Mary's; and the bishop, though he never alluded to the subject, showed him the most marked attention and kindness, which, I thought, indicated his respect for him before the clergy. Not very long after, Newman and my- self went to Bisley outside the carriage of John Keble and his wife, who had been lately married. This was the only time that Newman was at Bisley. The bishop was there for a confirmation. Newman was then more in sympathy with the Church of England than at any time, and he was introduced to the Bishop of Gloucester as the author of the " Arians." But he expressed to me his disgust at so NEWMAN DISSATISFIED. 107 luxurious a dinner prepared for a bishop. It would be better at such a time, he said, that a bishop should only ask for a little dry bread and salt and water. These things, and the great annoyance he always felt at John Keble's marriage, indicated feelings not at all in unison with the established state of things in the Church of England. And indeed some time afterwards, when Prevost 1 was asked by Dr. Inglis, Bishop of Nova Scotia, to be made Bishop of New Brunswick, the acceptance of which would have been a great self-denial, Newman said, " I don't know how he could accept such an appoint- ment under any circumstances from the State. I could not." 1 It seems right to say that, though I did decline the proposal of Bishop Inglis to go out as a mis- sionary, with the prospect of being afterwards bishop, it was not from any objection to a nomination by the Crown, but on account of my wife's very delicate health.— (Editor.) io8 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ISAAC WILLIAMS. Many have naturally supposed that it was the condemnation of the Tract No. 90, by the Heads of Houses, which gave his sensitive mind the decided turn to the Church of Rome. But I remember circumstances which indicated it was not so. He talked to me of writing a tract on the Thirty-nine Articles, and at the same time said things in favour of the Church of Rome, which quite startled and alarmed me, and I was afraid he would express the same in this tract, with no idea (as his manner was) of the sensation it would occasion. After endeavouring to dissuade him from it, I said, " Well, at all events let me see it first." On returning after the vacation, he said, " I have written that tract after all, but you have no need to be alarmed, for I have got John Keble to look it over, and he says nothing against it." Very true ; but he had not the TRACT NO. 90. 109 reasons for apprehension that I had. Yet, still, the sensation and the strong and bitter opposition it excited seemed to take Newman quite by surprise. I remember well being with him when Ward came into his room, on the day of its publication, and said, " There is an immense demand for that tract, and it is creating a tremendous stir, I find from Parkers shop." Newman walked with me at the time of the con- demnation of it, much depressed. And he wrote to apologize for it to Dr. J elf, partly unsaying it. This also was his manner ; he was carried away first of all by his own mind, but afterwards, from a very amiable and good feeling, wished to do away with the uneasiness occasioned. But his decided leaning to Rome came out to me in private, before that tract was written. Certainly he felt neglected before by the University, and constantly no AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ISAAC WILLIAMS. irritated by the Head of his college ; and I used to be surprised he had not more learned to look on persecution as a matter of course, what a good man must expect to meet with, and which should be to him a satisfaction, as indicating him to be in the way of truth. Yet nothing had as yet impaired our intimacy and friendship, until one evening, 1 when alone in his rooms, he told me he thought the Church of Rome was right, and we were wrong, so much so, that we ought to join it. To this I said that if our own Church im- proved, as we hoped, and the Church of Rome also would reform itself, it seemed to hold out the prospect of reunion. And then everything seemed favourably pro- gressing beyond what we could have dared to hope in the awakening of religion, 1 This conversation took place after the publication of Tract No. 90. — (Editor.) NEWMAN WAVERING. in and reformation among ourselves. That mutual repentance must, by God's bless- ing, tend to mutual restoration and union. " No," he said, " St. Augustine would not allow of this argument, as regarded the Donatists. You must come out and be separate." This conversation grieved and amazed me, and I at once wrote and gave Newman to understand that we could not be together so much as we had been. I owed it to myself. I had no right to put myself into temptation ; to subject myself willingly to influences which must operate so powerfully on the mind (for what could be more attractive than such influence ?) and thus to be led to what I was now assured was wrong. Yet still nothing of the nature of ill-will or a quarrel arose between us. But he was extremely annoyed at " The Baptistery," when it first came out, from my speaking so much ii2 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ISAAC WILLIAMS. against the Church of Rome in it, and a few words passed between us. It was one Sunday morning, when there was a great fire in the High Street. But he immedi- ately afterwards wrote to me very kindly, and in great distress. It was a great relief to me at that time, when I knew not how far our mutual friends agreed with Newman, that John Bowden — Newman's oldest and best friend — took me aside and thanked me greatly for the way I had spoken in "The Baptistery," against Rome, saying that Oxford, which had always been before his most delightful retreat, was now becoming painful to him from the Romanizing tendencies in some of our friends. Yet still, all this was long before it was publicly known what Newman's thoughts really were ; and he was for some time accused by some of dishonesty and duplicity. But NEWMAN WAVERING. 113 the fact really was, that he was wavering very much in his own mind ; and the feel- ings and thoughts he would express to one person or at one time, differed very much in consequence from what he might express to another or on another occasion. And I heard of his saying, " My old friends are what I like, their rj0os and character," men- tioning myself and another — C. Cornish ; " but I like the opinions of my new friends, though not themselves " — meaning espe- cially Ward of Balliol. So slowly and unwillingly did he put off his connection with us. But I was, notwithstanding all, one of the last to think that he would really join the Church of Rome, because I thought he would not submit himself to any system. But when Thomas Keble said in answer to this, "A man may do and think as he likes in the Church of Rome," I answered, "If this is the case, Q ii4 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ISAAC WILLIAMS. it will of course be different." Others, who first received the impulse from him- self, served afterwards to draw him on. Yet he spoke of many who, for intellectual reasons, had resolved to join the Church of Rome, but were unaccountably held back by something which might be, he said, the Spirit of God. Yet, if this were the case, this suggestion might, as all other warnings of the Good Spirit, be stifled and quenched by acting contrary to them. And it was after this time that at Oakeley's suggestion, I understood, he used the prayers to the Virgin in the Breviary, which he had not done at first, and this is often the strong overt act towards join- ing that communion. Yet still, I said to myself, if this be the leading of the Good Spirit into another Church, we shall see the fruits of it, or hear of them in holiness of life. But that the reverse has been APPEAL TO KEBLE. 113 the case has been throughout too evident, and that the characters of those who have gone from us have not improved by the change. The person to whom Newman most deferred had been Froude, though younger than himself. But I think even his influence would not have stayed New- man's restless mind. With regard to John Keble. I asked him at this time to come up and preach at St. Mary's on St. Andrew's Day (when I got a turn for him), in order to check the disloyal, unquiet spirits that were rising up. He came and preached, but he said he found it exceedingly difficult, as it made known to others the distrust we had of some among ourselves — and for this reason he did not preach the sermon he intended, but another — both, I think, since published. In Keble's judgment and steadfastness I always had the greatest confidence ; but n6 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ISAAC WILLIAMS. as every one has his weak side, so his is this — that from his love and partiality to his friends, especially if they are at all persecuted, he has been apt to be so taken with their opinions, that from his humility he will often apparently adopt them for his own. So that when I say that his opinion has of all the greatest weight with me, yet I am obliged to ask whether it is his own opinion (from what I well know of him) or only that of others. Thus I have heard him hold even with Oakeley and Ward, and he defended the translation of Bonaventura by the former because he said it did him good. " Now," I said, " I remember how strongly you condemned this in the Calvinists, when they said their hymns do them good ; so (you said) might an Ode of Pindar do me good, but it is not therefore Scriptural truth. Yet now you use this very argument yourself for "LYRA INNOCENTIUM." 117 these things in another direction." And a conversation of this kind gave rise to the " Lyra Innocentium," for Keble said he thought of altering the "Christian Year " to adapt it to his present views. " Well," I said, " if you do, we have the former, and we will ourselves reprint it and keep to it. If you want to express your altered views, write another book, and then we can still keep to the old." About the same time, on looking at John Edward, his godson, then an infant, 1 he said, " Why should there not be a future ' Cathedral ' in him ? Think of this. Does not the idea inspire you to write a book of poems about it ? " These thoughts and conversations at Bisley, after we had settled there, gave rise to the " Lyra Innocentium." But I do not mean to say that there ever was any real difference of opinion between John 1 Isaac Williams' own child. — (Editor.) i iS AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ISAAC WILLIAMS. Keble and myself, it was only that when Newman and others were in their transi- tion state, and before they left, John Keble, for love's sake, held with them ; and I wished always to show that it was himself, his own former self, that was to be trusted, and that these notions did not belong to him. And as soon as they had left us, it was otherwise. " Xow that I have thrown off Newman's yoke," said he one day to me, " these things appear to me quite different." 1 Nor has anything occa- 1 December 6, 1S59. — About a year ago, when staying at Hursley, I remember John Keble saying, " I look now upon my time with Newman and Pusey as a sort of parenthesis in my life : and I have now returned again to my old views such as I had before. At the time of the great Oxford movement, when I used to go up to you at Oxford, Pusey and Newman were full of the wonderful progress and success of the movement — whereas I had always been taught that the truth must be unpopular and despised, and to make confession for it was all that one could do ; but I see that I was fairly carried off my legs by the sanguine views they held, and the effects that were showing themselves in all quarters." — (Author's note.) NEWMAN'S INFLUENCE ON OTHERS. 119 sioned more defections to the Church of Rome than that many persons adopted opinions and principles which Xewman latterly put forth, while he appeared to be with us, which necessarily led to the Roman Church, and which he held as holding with the Church of Rome, without sufficiently considering what those principles were, and to what they led. It was very long before men were able to recover them- selves sufficiently to reconsider their views and judge for themselves, free from New- man's influence. December 7, 1S59. — It seems to be a popular notion that the original writers of the Tracts have generally joined the Church of Rome, and that therefore that movement of itself has been so far a failure ; but this is very far from being the case, for it is a very remarkable circum- stance, and one which I find very much 120 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ISAAC WILLIAMS. strikes every one to whom I have men- tioned it, that out of all the writers in the " Tracts for the Times," one only has joined the Church of Rome. And another re- markable fact is that whereas those writers are sometimes popularly said to have been originally of the Evangelical school, the only one, I believe, who was so, was this very one who has joined the Roman Church. From which it appears that there is standing ground in the Church of England between these two extremes. Of all who took any part, however slight and trivial, in the " Tracts for the Times," I can make out fourteen, and I do not think there were any more — Froude, New- man, John and Thomas Keble, Arthur Perceval, John Bowden, Isaac Williams, Pusey, Benjamin Harrison (since Arch- deacon), William Palmer (author of the " Origines Liturgicse "), Thomas Mozley, WRITERS OF THE TRACTS LOYAL. 121 Sir George Prevost, Antony Buller, and R. F. Wilson. Another circumstance which occurs to me is this, that while such a vast number of persons have joined the Church of Rome in consequence of Newman's influence (for indeed almost all the secessions are in some way or other traceable to that in- fluence either immediately or in its effects), yet these seceders were persons who looked upon him at a slight distance, or mixed with him on feelings of inferiority as younger or less intimate, and especially such as " sat under him," to use a popular sectarian expression, such as Oakeley Manning, Ward, Faber, and perhaps a hundred or more of others. Nothing can exceed the excessive interest with which many of these have inquired of me respect- ing all his sayings and doings. But what is most striking, there does not appear to R 122 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ISAAC WILLIAMS. have been any who associated with New- man on terms of equality, either from age, or position, or daily habitual intercourse, or the like, in unrestrained familiar know- ledge, who have followed his example in seceding to the Roman Church, such, I mean, as Fellows of Oriel, who lived with him (and some of them friends in the same staircase), as Rogers, Marriott, Church, the two Mozleys (his brothers-in-law), John Bowden, Copeland, J. F. Christie, Pusey, the Kebles. When Sir Frederic Rogers 1 was staying here a year and a half ago, I had some very interesting conversations with him on these subjects. He said that he very much wished he could have broken off from Newman in the way that I did, during the latter part of Newman's stay among us, for it was a very painful time 1 Afterwards Lord Blachford. NEIVMAX'SSEPARA TION FROM FRIENDS. 1 23 to him, and has left a very uncomfortable retrospect ; for seeing him daily as a Fellow, living in the same staircase, and having been in the habit of living with him, he entered into constant controversies and disputations with him, which produced at length a sore and irritable feeling, so that there ceased at last to be any friendli- ness between them, in that his separation from us. On the contrary I am able to look back with feelings of great thankfulness that during that very critical period of Newman's gradual withdrawing from us, when he shut himself up in his monastery at Littlemore, and previously during the latter part of his stay at Oxford, I was able to withdraw myself from him, and that too with mutual good feeling, and indeed during the last part of this interval I had left Oxford for Bisley and was 124 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ISAAC WILLIAMS. married. 1 Whereas, with Copeland it was just the contrary ; he began to be thrown more into the society of Newman, as I withdrew myself from it, and this especi- ally from his taking the curacy of Little- more, just as Newman went to reside there. The consequences of this have been to him exceedingly trying. He could not, I think, ever have joined the Roman Church as his brother has done. But his mind and body were all but over- whelmed with the great trial, distress, and perplexity, out of which he was a long time before he recovered ; for Newman's words during all that time sank very deeply within him, so impressive and penetrating were his sayings. Newman's saying to him with surprise, " Could you sign the Thirty-nine Articles ? I could 1 Married Caroline, third daughter of Arthur Champernowne, Esq., of Dartington, at Bisley, 1842. COPELAND AND NEWMAN. 125 not ! " made him for some time incapable of doing so, or taking a living or any charge that required it. And to this day Copeland has Newman and his sayings always in his mind. LETTERS FROM NEWMAN. The following letters from Cardinal Newman 1 are here inserted by the Editor, as showing at once Isaac Williams's unshaken and ever increasing faithfulness towards our own Church, and at the same time the tender regard and affection that subsisted between them to the last, and which we humbly trust is renewed in them now in the light of God's pure and perfect truth. No. i. Littlemore, October 8, 1845. My very dear Williams, I do not like not to send you just a line, though I know how it will 1 I have to thank the cardinal's executor, Father LETTERS FROM NEWMAN. 127 distress you. Father Dominic, the Pas- sionist, is coming here to-night on his way to Belgium. He does not know of my intentions, but I shall ask of him the charitable work of admitting me to what I believe to be the one true fold of the Redeemer. He is full of love for religious men among us, and believes many to be inwardly knit to the Catholic Church who are outwardly separate from it. This will not go till all is over. You may suppose how much Bisley has been in my thoughts lately. This is a short letter, but I have a great many to write. Ever yours affectionately, J. H. N. No. 2. Abbotsford, Melrose, December 21, 1852. My dear Williams, I received your affectionate letter here last night, and thank you for Neville, for his kindness in giving me permission to publish these letters. 128 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ISAAC WILLIAMS. it with all my heart. I am banished from home at this season on account of my health, and, if I must be an exile, I cannot have a pleasanter place of banishment or kinder hosts than the present inmates of Abbotsford. I have nothing definite the matter with me ; but the incessant stress of twenty years on my brain and nerves have brought, what medical men call, my " vital powers " very low. My only symptom is excessive weakness. When I was finishing the " Arians," at the beginning of the period I speak of, I was daily, if not fainting away, yet feeling as if I were, and such effects of mental application are not likely to be less now. So the doctors have decided I must do nothing ; and I have promised to do nothing till Easter. We have been building a large house at Birmingham during the last two years, and all the time it was building I kept saying, " We shall have some cross, mark me ! " And certainly such a shower has come upon us as to be like nothing else LETTERS FROM NEWMAN. 129 than meteoric stones from heaven, through the last year, so much so that we almost fear to build our church, lest a more grievous fall of the like loving chastise- ments should come on us. Certainly, per- sonally speaking, I never have, through my life, had such a year as the last, and it is a wonder I have got through it as I have. You only say the truth when you antici- pate I remember you tenderly in my prayers, though you are, my dear Williams, if you will let me say it (in answer to what you say yourself) of " the straitest sect, "and, as a matter of duty, will not let heaven smile upon you. But it is so difficult to say a word without wounding most tender feelings, that, though I should not have spoken on the subject, if you had not, yet pray give me your pardon, as you read, if this sentence is needlessly painful to you. Ah ! if I had any portion of St. Paul's true zeal in my heart, I should have some portion of gentleness in my words. Ever yours, my dearest Williams, Most lovingly and affectionately, John H. Newman. s 130 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ISAAC WILLIAMS. No. 3. The Oratory, Birmingham, June 7, 1863. My dearest Isaac, Your letter came an hour or two ago. I rejoiced to have it. Is it possible you should not have seen more of Oxford of late years than I have ? I have not seen more than its spires in passing since February 22, 1846. I dined and slept at dear Johnson's, and left for good. I only heard lately that the cap and gown had gone out, and yet did not believe it, till you have confirmed it. Heu quantum mutatus ab Mo ! Of all human things perhaps Oxford is nearest my heart, — and some parsonages in the country. I cannot ever realize to myself that I shall never see what I love so much, again, though I have had time enough to do so in. But why should I wish to see what is no longer what I loved ? All things change ; the past never returns here. My friends, LETTERS FROM NEWMAN. 131 I confess, have not been kind — I suppose this is what you allude to, as my having expressed it to Copeland. But, really, I think I have a reason. I should not here notice it, if you had not. If they act on principle, I should not say a word, but love them the better for it. If they said, as we used to say of Arnold, " I cannot recognize you," I understand it fully and am satisfied. But such cases are the exception. * * * Well, if I spoke severely to Copeland, I am sorry for it, — but I don't think I did. I am not " holy," in spite of you, but I think I a77i " calm and loving," though I wish there were more of supernatural grace and holiness in that calm and love. But to return. If any place in England will right itself, it is Oxford ; but I despond about the cause of dogmatic truth in England altogether. Who can tell what is before us ? The difficulty is that the arguments of infidelity are deeper than those of Protestantism, and in the same direction. (I am using Protestantism in the sense in which you 132 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ISAAC WILLIAMS. and Pusey would agree in using it.) And how can you back to something more primitive, more Christian, a whole nation, a whole Church ? The course of every- thing is onwards, not backwards. Till Phaeton runs through his day, and is chucked from his chariot, you cannot look for the new morning. Everything I hear makes me fear that latitudinarian opinions are spreading furiously in the Church of England. I grieve deeply at it. The Anglican Church has been a most useful breakwater against scepticism. The time might come when you as well as I might expect that it would be said above, " Why cumbereth it the ground ? " but at present it upholds far more truth in England than any other form of religion would, and than the Catholic Roman Church could. But what I fear is that it is tending to a powerful establishment teaching direct error, and more powerful than it ever has been ; thrice powerful, because it does teach error. It is what the Whig party have been at all our time, not destroying the LETTERS FROM NEWMAN. 133 establishment, but corrupting it. Do you recollect little John Whitman ? He is now a man of thirty and a shoemaker, living near us. He was calling on me an hour ago. He has just lost his mother. She broke a leg and died. She and Whitman live in St. Clement's, he tells me. He is a nice fellow, but I neither liked, nor now like, father and mother, poor things. He was brought up by Mrs. Small and Mrs. Tombs, and never lived at home. Ever yours affectionately, John H. Newman. No. 4. The Oratory, Birmingham, March 31, 1865. My dearest Isaac, All last summer I was trying to get to you — but really I am tied by the leg here. In November I got away to the Sussex coast for a week — else, I was here almost through the whole year. Copeland's account has saddened me very 134 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ISAAC WILLIAMS. much — and I had been anxious before it. I don't forget, but remember with much gratitude, how for twenty years you are perhaps the only one of my old friends who has never lost sight of me — but by letters, or messages, or inquiries, have ever kept up the memory of past and happy days. How mysterious it is that the holiest ties are snapped and cast to the winds by the holiest promptings — and that they who would fain live together in a covenant of gospel peace, hear each of them a voice and a contrary voice, calling on them to break it ! I cannot stir till Easter — but then I should like of all things to run down to you. Ever yours most affectionately, John H. Newman. The Rev. Isaac Williams, No. 5 - The Oratory, Birmingham, May 4, 1865. My dear Sir George, I have been planning another visit to dear Isaac, and your letter comes. LETTERS FROM NEWMAN. 135 My first sad thought is that in a certain sense I have killed him. I am sure so it is, that he did not rally after driving me down to the station. He has really been a victim of his old love for me. He has never lost sight of me — ever inquiring about me from others, sending messages, or writing to me. I so much feared he was overdoing himself — but he would not allow it. I wanted him to let me walk clown, but he wanted to have more talk ; and then, when he set off, he could not say a word. But it is all well ; and God knows better than we do. I am most glad to have seen him, though I have (as it were) killed him with a kiss. Well, I have sent him out of a world in which he had no part, except as far as it contained souls, with whom he was so lovingly bound up. Poor John Keble, how will it be broken to him ? When I first saw him on my arrival, T thought death was marked upon his face. But then I knew how strange his health had been for years ; and, when he began 136 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ISAAC WILLIAMS. to talk, he was so much himself, and his mind so clear, that the impression went. Well, I shall say Mass (if all is well) on Saturday for his dear soul ; and so will Mr. St. John. May God wash it white in His most precious blood, and receive it into that eternal peace and light which it coveted above all things. Very sincerely yours, John H. Newman. The Rev. Sir George Prevost, Bart. P.S. — I have written a line to Mrs. Williams and I enclose it — asking you to take the trouble to read it, and to let her have it or not, as you think best. POETRY PROFESSORSHIP. December 9, 1859. — In looking back on those eventful times, there appear more distinctly in memory certain great occasions which brought out some crisis and marked the progress of persons and things ; of these the last and crowning one was the contest for the poetry professorship in 1841-42. I had never sought or obtained any kind of University favour or office either of honour or distinction, except the Latin verse prize ; but it was looked upon as a matter of course by many that I should succeed Keble as Poetry Professor. Of itself I had neither time nor desire for it ; but my determination was fixed from T 138 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ISAAC WILLIAMS. this circumstance. Piers Claughton (now the Colonial Bishop) came to me and asked me not to stand for the professorship, in order that his brother — the vicar, now of Kidderminster 1 — might stand, as two could not be candidates from the same college (and his brother was also of Trinity), grounding his application on the threat held out by some that I should be opposed as the writer of Tract No. 80 and for my church principles. I immediately said, " On this threat I cannot retire." Garbett was afterwards put up by the Principal of Brasenose with the prospect that a religious com- motion might be excited. At first, things went on silently and quietly, without any overt act that stamped it as a religious or party movement. But this comparative quietude was very soon broken up by 1 Afterwards Bishop of St. Albans. — (Editor's note) POETRY PROFESSORSHIP. 139 Pusey, unwittingly, and as it was thought most unwisely ; for what he did imme- diately gave our adversaries all that they desired. This was a printed circular which he issued in my praise and in my favour, complaining of my being opposed merely and avowedly for my church principles, on the Head of Brasenose's own admission. Upon this the opposite party had promises pouring in on all sides, and many, who had been with us, held aloof, and some with- drew their promises. A regular reign of terror set in. The commotion filled the papers and all parts of the land, and many found their own secular interests would be seriously endangered by adhering to us. Some of these cases much distressed me. That the Low Church party as a body should all oppose me, as Wadham College did, was all right and natural — my Tract No. 80 was against them — they rightly Uo AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ISAAC WILLIAMS. understood it, there was no mistake ; but with others nearer home it was different. I will mention three cases. There was Boyle, 1 of Oriel, he wrote to say that, much as he had felt personally with me, as an old friend, he must go up from Scot- land to vote against me as he was so opposed to us in principle, being himself in opinion, if not altogether, Presbyterian. This was all honourable and straightfor- ward. I could not complain. But my excellent friend and companion, Ben Harrison, himself a writer in the Tracts, had now gone to be the Archbishop's private chaplain, and if he had written to say to me that in consequence of his con- nection with the Archbishop he could not vote for me, I should not have taken it 1 Patrick Boyle, father of the present Earl of Glas- gow. I remember that Boyle told me that he was married by a Presbyterian minister, no doubt of the established kirk. — (Editor.) POETRY PROFESSORSHIP. 141 amiss. But he wrote to say that in con- sequence of an article of Ward's in the British Critic, he could no longer identify himself with us, by voting for me (his most intimate friend). This vexed me, for he knew well that I myself denounced and disapproved of the article he spoke of, more strongly even than he did. But, after all, it was but this his manner of holding aloof that I complain of. It was my fault, I ought to have made more allowances for him. His position es- tranged him from us all, for a time. His mind has now given way. 1 I have always loved and valued him very much indeed. The most trying case to me was that of Bishop Wilberforce (not then Bishop of Oxford). He had always been in familiar intercourse with me — asking me for my 1 He recovered, however, his powers of mind many years before his death. — (Editor.) 142 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ISAAC WILLIAMS. new books, getting me to introduce New- man to him in every way. On receiving the college circular he wrote to our President, expressing his great interest in the election, as I was his old and intimate friend ; but some one observed at the time, " Don't you notice how cautiously through- out he abstains from giving his promise ? " And in the end, though an old friend, he took part against me, and voted for my opponents. Still I feel, on the retrospect, that great allowances are to be made even for this. The only thing I felt was that those who knew well my opinions and agreed with them, 1 ought to have continued with me. Other opponents were all fair and of a different kind — many because I was Newmans friend, and Newman was distrusted at this time, and the new persons he was getting about him, as Ward of 1 Bishop Wilberforce did not at that time altogether agree with Isaac Williams' opinions. See notes, p. 69. —(Editor.) BISHOP THIRLWALL. 143 Balliol, were but half and hollow friends. Others, again, as the heads of houses generally, were hostile to the whole move- ment. Thus a man in Wales, to whom my brother applied for his vote for me, said he should certainly vote against me, as he understood things were " come to such a sad pass in Oxford, that a man could not get a mutton-chop for supper." What he meant was that the supper-parties and potations had gone out under our influence. It was indeed an exceedingly stirring time, and in the interval came the Christ- mas Vacation in the midst of the excite- ment. The new Bishop of St. David's, Bishop Thirlwall, on whom we had looked with such aversion, that some of us had seriously thought of contending against the confirmation of his election, from what we indistinctly heard of him, yet was found unexpectedly my friend, from a love of 144 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ISAAC WILLIAMS. fairness and unbaissed spirit of inquiry. He offered to come and consecrate the new church of Llangorwen 1 in Welsh with Bishop Andrews's service ; asked me par- ticularly to preach the sermon, and after- wards to publish it, was personally very kind to me, and told me that the other bishops had not understood, some had not read, what I had written. After this, a very large party, with Gladstone, my supporter, among them, and the Bishop of Oxford, i.e. Bishop Bagot, our friend, signed a requisition to both parties to retire. On seeing this, I imme- diately wrote a very long letter (which John Keble strongly approved), addressed to the Bishop of Oxford, stating the rea- sons that had constrained me to stand ; and that from my committee I had very 1 Built and endowed by Isaac Williams's eldest brother, close to their old home at Cwmcynfelin, in this Bishop's diocese. — (Editor.) POETRY PROFESSORSHIP. 145 sanouine reasons of success ; but that I was but too glad to comply with the wishes expressed by my bishop in any way, and that, therefore, I at once withdrew and resigned the contest. Before, however, sending this letter to Bishop Bagot, it was necessary to lay it before my President and my committee ; but the President of Trinity, Ingram, was of all things most jealous of interference from the Bishop of Oxford in any university affairs. Newman acquiesced in what I proposed to do, say- ing that our opponents, availing themselves of our episcopal obedience, were "seething the kid in its mother s milk!' In the mean time, before I had thus resigned at our bishop's wish, an agreement was made for a comparison of votes. They had a large majority. And immediately after its being made known, it was announced that the head of the opposite party, Dr. Gilbert, u i 4 6 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ISAAC WILLIAMS. the Principal of Brasenose, was made Bishop of Chichester by Sir Robert Peel. Dr. Gilbert had indeed become the head of the anti-tractarian party at the time, but in some degree accidentally, and not altogether owing to difference in prin- ciple. When Newman went abroad in 1832-33, and left me in charge of St. Mary's, Dr. Gilbert and Mrs. Gilbert were very kind to me, and admired Newman very much. Mrs. Gilbert told me long after, that Dr. Gilbert always bought her, as his own present, every book that Newman wrote ; but he afterwards took offence, chiefly from things said in the St. Mary's pulpit, offensive and extravagant, especially by Morris (Jack Morris, as he was called). The Principal was an ex- tremely irritable person, and became very hostile to Newman, and in consequence, when the contest for this election took POETRY PROFESSORSHIP. 147 place, took a very active lead against us. But, after all, his opposition was mainly personal, as against Newman's friend, rather than grounded on a great antago- nism of principles. The Bishop of Gloucester did not be- have kindly, or as it seemed to me fairly, at this election ; he had in ignorance condemned my tract on " Reserve," in a Charge, and now, when people had be- come sensitive about obedience to bishops, some of my friends (Sewell, I think, was one) objected to my tract, not in itself, but as being under quasi-episcopal censure. On this, I published the Bishop's remarks in parallel columns with extracts from my tracts alluded to, showing that they were quite opposite to what the Bishop sup- posed. I wrote to him, and it became reported and publicly stated that he had withdrawn his censures ; just at last I 143 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ISAAC WILLIAMS. had a letter from him, long mislaid and misdirected to me at Trinity College, Cambridge, allowing that he knew not of the existence of the latter tract of mine on the subject of "Reserve" in the " Tracts for the Times " (and I believe he had not read the former). And then, at last, when it was too late for me to reply, he pub- lished a letter in the papers, saying that he did not retract his former censures, and so joined openly the popular party and Lord Shaftesbury, thus seriously influencing an Oxford University election, being himself a Cambridge man, and what he did and said told against me chiefly on account of that respect for a bishop's authority which w r e, the Tractarians, had always laboured to increase. But, however, I w r as glad afterwards to have made friends with him, and to have seen him in this house. HIS DANGEROUS ILLNESS. Extract from a letter from the Rev. R. Suckling to the Rev. W. Scudamore, dated Kemerton Rectory, January 19, 1846:— Of Isaac Williams's illness you have seen a notice. It is very serious. He is in a far advanced decline, and is not expected to live much beyond a month. He is in the house of his brother-in-law, Sir George Prevost. 1 A friend of his was staying here last week (Mr. Christie) who had just seen him — taken his farewell leave of him — he 1 At Stincbcombe, in the county and diocese of Gloucester, the parish of which I then was and still am the incumbent. A house was afterwards built for him, very near mine, where he lived seventeen years, and where he died May 1, 1865. — (Editor.) 150 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ISAAC WILLIAMS. describes him as most calm. His faith in our Church (he says) is most firm. Dr. Pusey and many others have been to see him — but Archdeacon Manning's parting was very affecting — he kissed his hand and begged his prayers hereafter, when he should be in bliss — for himself and for our afflicted Church. As the illness to which the above letter refers, and the recovery from it, were amongst the most remarkable events in Isaac Williams's life, it seemed to me right to insert it, the more so as we find it in the same manuscript book as the auto- biography, in his widow's handwriting. Isaac Williams survived to be Robert Suckling's biographer. I earnestly wish that life was still read, as it was for some little time after Suckling's very early death. It would (I cannot but think) help in leading the men of the present HIS DANGEROUS ILLXESS. 151 generation to look upon Christianity, not so much as a battle-field for contro- versialists, still less as a subject of com- promise, but as a matter intensely practical, founded on faith in the great verities of revelation — verities to be simply defended and maintained without wavering, but ever as speaking the truth in love, and as putting forth the strongest motives for tenderness and compassion for souls in misery and danger. This illness began in the latter part of the year 1845, with a lumbar abscess, which physicians and surgeons considered most serious, but when that was healed, disease in the lungs came on, and in fact all the symptoms of rapid consumption. Certainly, in my long experience, I never saw a case in which the symptoms of that fatal complaint appeared to be more clearly or more fully developed. The expectora- 152 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ISAAC WILLIAMS. tion, the night perspirations, the emaciation, were quite such as one is used to see, when consumption has reached its last stage. A physician from London came down to see him, and on his return told a friend of mine, who was travelling with him, that life could not hold out more than five days longer. We were all of us (relatives and friends) of course earnestly praying for him, but we had no hope of his recovery, nor had he himself. However, a doctor from Aberystwith, near his old home, tried some medicine that had not yet been tried upon him, and by God's marvellous blessing on the use of it, contrary to all expectation, he recovered, and his life was lengthened (though with weakened health) for nineteen years. I remember hearing a gentleman ask one of the doctors who had watched the case, whether it would HIS DAXGEROUS ILLXESS. 153 not be well to put an account of a case so remarkable in some medical book. But the reply was, "I do not think we can attribute the recovery to any particular medical treatment. It was more the work of nature and Providence." His birthday was the 12th of December, and, according- to the Lectionary then in use, the thirty- eighth chapter of Isaiah was read at Evensong, which records the lengthening of the days of Hezekiah, and this he and his friends often mentioned. The latter years of his life, after this illness, were spent in retirement, but yet in constant occupation, for some time partly in the education of his sons, but throughout the whole period in writing sacred poems, and in the composition of sermons and commentaries on Holy Scripture. I knew a good man, well acquainted with Dr. Pusey, who being asked by a bishop x 154 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ISAAC WILLIAMS. whether he thought Pusey would follow Newman, replied " I cannot think it ; he lives in the Scriptures." It was the same reverential love for his Bible, the same life in it, that sheltered Isaac Williams to the end alike from Romanism and from Rationalism. CONDEMNATION OF DR. PUSEY'S SERMON. The following observations on the trial (if it can be so called) and the condemna- tion, by the six doctors, of Dr. Pusey's great sermon on the Eucharist, are found in Isaac Williams's own handwriting, at the end of the autobiography ; as though he wished his children to know the true history of that sad business, and the feel- ings that it excited at Oxford. There is no doubt that Isaac Williams was the author of the paper, and the editor, in determining to publish it, has been forti- fied by the opinion of some of those who remembered those days, and in particular 156 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF IS AAC WILLIAMS. by that of him who has written the only history we have yet of the Oxford Movement. Probable Effects of late Proceedings at Oxford. Nothing has occurred in our time so pregnant with great consequences as the late conspiracy in Oxford. A barrier has given way, as in the march of revolutionary measures, when the divinity that hedges round the person of a king has been broken through. The first overt act never stops ; so is it with our natural reverence for a holy person, when under any violent impulse this sacred feeling is trampled on, and God's withholding hand is withdrawn, it may be augured to be the prelude of great events. Certainly nothing has been known in our days like the feeling with which it has been received by all within the more immediate circles of Oxford society ; men look at each other as if some wicked thing had been perpetrated on CONDEMNATION OF DR. PUSEY. 157 which they could not venture to speak ; in all there is a deep feeling that it is not to end here. And a sense of love and reverence for the injured person strongly- entertained, but never perhaps before fully- known or expressed, breaks out in sayings from men of all opinions, which have much struck me. " He is so marked by the hand of Heaven, by sacred sorrows, and in every way " said one, " there is something so sacrosanct about him, that they dare not touch him ; it cannot be." " Why, he is like a guardian angel to the place," said another. " One feels as if one's own mother had been insulted," says a third ; " it overwhelms one as something shock- ing." There is also a very general im- pression that the sermon itself is no more than a handle for a preconcerted measure, which is confirmed by the fact that they have resolutely refused to mention any one objectionable proposition in the ser- mon, or to state in what way it is dis- cordant with the Church of England ; all 158 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ISAAC WILLIAMS. whom I have met with considered the sermon very innocent and unexceptionable Add to which the circumstance of a similar attack at the same time upon another, where, the particular charge being specified, it was at once found untenable and frivo- lous. * * * As the Vice-Chancellor has still some time to continue in office, it is to be hoped he will remember that, in times when party spirit runs high, men in prominent places, however amiable and right in their intentions, if they have not the firmness to abide by their own opinions, become the worst of instruments in the hands of others, to hasten that crisis which they would be the first to deprecate. But what will Alma Mater do to clear herself? for such a spot on her fair name is not to be found. Setting aside the moral weight of Dr. Pusey's character, and that of his station as a canon of Christ Church, as a man of genius, neither the University or the nation have seen his superior for centuries. Add also that there is in the English cha- INDIGNATION AT OXFORD. 159 racter a strong sense against unfair deal- ing ; persons in no way connected with this movement are loud against this pro- ceeding. " I am no friend to them and to their views," said one man in my hearing, "but this is a sad business ; what will the world say of such a judge and jury ? " Again, will it urge men to Rome ? This is the apprehension of many. I think not, for two reasons ; first, that when a person feels that others have a desire to thrust him from his place, he becomes actuated by a double desire to retain it more fully and broadly, and a desire to urge the party to Rome is too evident. In the second place, Dr. Pusey himself is the one of all others least inclined to secede to Rome, and this late occurrence has not only combined and rivetted together the whole Catholic body in the English Church, but especially around himself, by a sympathy and affection brought out and strengthened to an inconceivable decree. Now all these are elements, the working of which prognosticate their final success 160 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ISAAC WILLIAMS. in the struggle. Add to which, beyond all, the strength which always has moved the world and shaken it to its centre — the strength of principle. " It is but little," says Aristotle, " in outward show, but in worth and power far surpasses all things." Truth, moreover, never has prevailed ex- cept when persecuted, and from the begin- ning to this day it is impossible to put your finger on any point in history when the truth appeared and was not persecuted, since the time of which it is said "And wherefore slew he him f Because his own works were evil and his brother s righteous .' n It has passed into a principle observed by the wise man, " Let our strength be the law of justice} He was made to reprove our thoughts. He is grievous unto tcs even to behold, for his life is not like other mens, his ways are of another fashion. * * * He abstaineth from our ways as from filtliiness. Let us see if his words be true." 3 Again, time tells in their favour, the 1 i John iii. 12. a Wisdom ii. 11. 8 Ibid., verses 14-17. ANTICIPATED STRUGGLE. 161 rising generation are with them. If seven doctors will condemn them, yet take seven of your youngest masters of arts at a venture for your jury, and they will as certainly find an acquittal. But still for the time being on the other side there is power — worldly power — those are known to be with them, whose mere wishes are a law to some of a certain station and cha- racter. This implies a struggle, but nothing more ; it is but as chaff before the wind before great principles. (Signed) Oxoniensis. SERMON BY THOMAS KEBLE. Tavra \e\d\rjKa vjuv %va iv ifiot elpr)i>r)v ex 7 ? 1 " 6 * * v T V KSafiCf) dkityiv e(ere' ctAAcfc dapaeTre' cyi* veviKrjKa rbv Koafiov. "Hsec locutus sum vobis, ut in me pacem habeatis : in mundo pressuram habebitis : sed confidite ; ego vici mundum." " Haec locutus sum vobis, ut in me pacem habeatis : in mundo afflictionem habetis : sed bono animo sitis : ego vici mundum." A Sermon of Thomas Keble's, sent by Isaac Williams to J. H. Newman, no DOUBT ON THE OCCASION OF THE DEATH of Newman's Mother (see p. 73). St. John xvi. 33. " These things I have spoken unto you, That in Me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation : But be of good cheer ; I have overcome the world." These are the concluding words of our blessed Master's memorable address to His disciples, just before His last suffer- ings — a part of Gospel history to which our attention has this day been especially called. Throughout this touching address or conversation, there is nothing more worthy of the devout attention of all sincere Christians than the wonderful tenderness and compassion displayed by the adorable 1 66 SERMON BY THOMAS KEBLE. Jesus towards the erring and afflicted, such as His disciples then were — erring in their notions about the nature of Chris- tian earthly blessings ; and afflicted at the thought that those blessings would not be of the kind they had expected, espe- cially that they could not much longer hope to be favoured with the visible presence of their Lord, but must be left, as they imagined, " orphans," and " com- fortless " in the midst of a cruel world. We first, then, observe how gently and tenderly, as His manner was, the holy Jesus rebuked them for their mistaken or imperfect notions of the nature and value of Christian privileges and blessings. (And it may be worth while to recollect that this conversation took place either at the paschal table, immediately after they had eaten the Passover together, or else on the way as they walked from SERMON BY THOMAS KEBLE. 167 Jerusalem to the garden of Gethsemane. Probably to the end of the fourteenth chapter as they sat at the table, the fifteenth and sixteenth chapters as they walked along.) Thus, then, it was. Although our Lord had frequently foretold His own death and sufferings, yet the Apostles could not endure to hear of it or believe it. At length, when the time really approached, they began to be perplexed and alarmed, and put different questions to Him, such as their fears suggested. And the par- ticular circumstance which seems first to have decidedly roused their apprehensions was the solemn and affectionate address which He made to them, just after Judas had left the room. " My children," He said, " yet a little while I am with you. Ye shall seek Me, and as I said unto the Jews, Whither I go ye cannot come ; so 1 68 SERMON BY THOMAS KEBLE. now I say to you." Upon this the zealous St. Peter immediately asks whither He was going, implying that wherever it might be, he at least would not leave Him. " Lord, why cannot I follow Thee now ? I will lay down my life for Thy sake." The more cautious St. Thomas, anxious to have his reason convinced, and, as it might seem, vexed at not having the whole matter clearly explained to him, seems to speak rather in an upbraiding tone — " Lord, we know not whither Thou goest, and how can we know the way ? " Another apostle, St. Philip, evidently deeply pained, like St. Peter, at the thought of being separated from their beloved Master, asks for some visible token of God's presence with them, and then they would (he said) be contented. " Lord," said he, "show us the Father, and it sufficeth us." And then the holy Jesus, SERMON BY THOMAS KEBLE. 169 having gone on to explain to them that it did not of necessity follow that, because He left the world, He should therefore leave them, St. Jude also anxiously ques- tioned Him how this could possibly be. " Lord, how is it that Thou wilt manifest Thyself unto us, and not unto the world ? " plainly showing that he had not as yet any clear notion of the nature of the Messiah's kingdom, but supposed it would be in outward show and splendour, like the kingdoms of this world, or, at all events, that its King, Christ Jesus, would remain personally and visibly on earth to protect His servants and to rule His Church. Now we observe with what tenderness and gentleness the holy Jesus bore with this ignorance and (in some instances) hastiness and waywardness of His chosen Apostles, or, as He called them, friends, z 170 SERMON BY THOMAS KEBLE. and how gradually, yet significantly, He brought the truth before them. They were thinking of a great kingdom, and themselves to be the chief persons in it. He washes their feet as a slave, and then says, " I have given you an example : M " The servant is not greater than his lord." They were expecting a great kingdom, speedily to be established by Him, such as should be the wonder and admiration of the world. He plainly told them, " Yet a little while, and the world seeth Me no tnore" They were looking for high honours and places in the new kingdom. He told them to expect nothing from the world but " hatred," and " persecution," and " death," exactly as Himself had received from it. "If the world hate you," said He, what then? " ye know that it hated Me before it hated you." "If they have SERMON BY THOMAS KEBLE. 171 persecuted Me, they will also persecute you." " The time cometh, that whoso- ever killeth you will think that he doeth God service." Thus decisively, and in language of which the meaning could not be mis- taken, did our Lord put an end to any hopes which His disciples might have cherished of any mere earthly honours or success, attending the faithful profession of His Gospel ; thus tenderly, yet earnestly, did He labour to convince them that all their notions of His kincr- dom, as being like the kingdoms of this world, were erroneous, and could only lead to disappointment. Yet, at the same time, it is also most worthy of our observation with what gentleness and infinite compassion He regarded their condition, cast down as they then were with the thought of being 172 SERMON BY THOMAS KEBLE. separated from their beloved Master, and with the evil prospect which lay before them of the treatment they were to ex- pect after He was gone from a cruel, or, at best, an unfeeling world. Thus sometimes He begs them, as it were, to turn their thoughts to the miracles, which He had now for three years past been working in their presence ; and they must confess that they might as reasonably become atheists, and deny the providence of God altogether, as distrust the power and love of Him their Saviour. " Let not your heart be troubled : ye believe in God, believe also in Me." And after- wards, to one of the Apostles especially, who begged for some strong overpowering evidence of God's presence with Him, that so there might be no longer any room for doubt or misgiving, our Lord's argument was of the same kind, after His SERMON BY THOMAS KEBLE. 173 tender condescending manner, " Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known Me, Philip ? He that hath seen Me hath seen the Father ; and how sayest thou then, Show us the Father. . . . Believe Me that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me : or else believe Me for the very works' sake." In which our blessed Master seems to have encouraged in His sorrowing disciples both then and in every age, the disposi- tion so pathetically set forth in the ex- quisitely beautiful one hundred and forty- third Psalm. "My spirit is overwhelmed within me [says the psalmist] ; My heart within me is desolate. I remember the days of old; I meditate on all Thy works ; I muse on the work of Thy hands." 1 For here, you observe, he points out 1 Ps. cxliii. 4, 5 (Bible Version). 174 SERMON BY THOMAS KEBLE. the only refuge for an overwhelmed spirit and a desolate heart, to be in remembering, meditating, and musing on God's works — His works of nature and of providence possibly he might mean — but we can look to much greater works, His works of grace. Nor need we look far without finding. For as every leaf and flower shows the hand of God in what we call the natural world, so does every page of Scripture, the history also of nations and of indi- viduals, contain evidences of His love and power in the world of grace ; so that to the Christian's eye, purified by faith, the works of God even in this dim world are ever presented, and he everywhere traces the hand of the great Workmaster, infinite power, and (if the expression may be allowed) more infinite love. It might perhaps have been expected SERMON BY THOMAS KEBLE. 175 beforehand that in our blessed Lord's discourse delivered to His Apostles, or, as He was pleased to term them " His friends," on so remarkable an occasion, and when He was so soon about to leave them, it might have been expected, I say, that He should have dwelt much or even chiefly on the happiness in store for the faithful in heaven, as a hope suffi- cient to counterbalance all their present sufferings. Yet you may observe that on this oc- casion He who knew what was in man, said but little on this great and glorious subject. " I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto Myself; that where I am, there ye may be also." And afterwards — " Ye shall be sorrow- ful, but your sorrow shall be turned into 176 SERMON BY THOMAS KEBLE. joy." ... " I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you." These, I believe, are the only expres- sions in the whole of our Lord's discourse, which seem to turn the thoughts of His afflicted disciples to that subject, which one would have thought most suitable to supply them with consolation and en- couragement under such trying circum- stances — the thought, I mean, of their heavenly reward, in His eternal presence. Yet this, you see, is not at all dwelt on or explained, and perhaps we may without presumption say, for this reason, because there is danger, if we suffer our imagina- tions to rest too much on that state of bliss, that kingdom prepared for God's blessed ones from the be^inninor- of the world, there is a danger of our forgetting those daily duties assigned to each of us SERMON BY THOMAS KEBLE. 177 here in our respective stations, and by the neglect or fufilment of which (without reference to our hopes and feelings) we show ourselves faithful or unfaithful ser- vants of our Redeemer and God. In what way, then, it may be asked, did He offer comfort to them in their affliction ? For that they were deeply afflicted, and that one great, if not the principal, purpose of His discourse to them at that time was to offer to them substantial consolation, no attentive reader of this touching portion of the Gospel history can, I suppose, question or deny. The answer must be, that he set them to work "to do their duty in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call them," as therein and therein only they would find substantial hope and comfort, having the promised aid and guidance of the Almighty Comforter, and united in- 2 A 178 SERMON BY THOMAS KEBLE. visibly indeed and spiritually, yet sub- stantially and really, to their beloved Lord who was only gone, as He Himself assured them, to prepare a place for them, and would surely come again and receive them to Himself, never more to be separated. I say, that our blessed Master taught His disciples to look for substantial comfort under affliction in the diligent accomplish- ment of their present high and sacred duties, rather than in any less active anticipations of the final reward, may appear, as from the general tenor of these divine discourses, so from express passages therein — such, for instance, as these — " If ye love Me [as ye profess to do, then] keep My commandments, and I will pray the Father, and He shall give you another Comforter, who shall abide with you for ever {i.e. during all the time of your earthly trial), even the Spirit of SERMON BY THOMAS KEBLE. 179 Truth." ° He that hath My command- ments and keepeth them, he it is that [really] loveth Me, and such an one My Father will love, and We will come unto him and make Our abode with him." Oh, words of solid, heavenly consolation ! And afterwards, " Herein is My Father glorified, that ye bear much frtiit, so [i.e. in bearing much fruit] shall ye be My disciples." This, as to what they must do, and as to what they must suffer or be prepared to suffer ; the same calm resolute persever- ing disposition He intimated would be required of them. It was not, indeed, according to the world's mode of administering consolation to speak of the sufferings that awaited them (" The time cometh that whosoever killeth you, will think that he doeth God service"), yet even thus did the Saviour 180 SERMON BY THOMAS KEBLE. comfort His friends, that they might be ready and prepared for whatever should happen, or (in His own words), that when the time should come, " they might re- member that He had told them of these things." " Ye shall be sorrowful " said He, " but your sorrow shall be turned into joy." " Ye now, therefore [i.e. as a matter of course] have sorrow : but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you." And closing all with those memorable words of divine compassion and encourage- ment. " These things I have spoken unto you, that in Me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation : but be of good cheer ; I have overcome the world." Thus did He, our Lord and Saviour, animate His chosen disciples and friends to go on their way rejoicing, in every SERMON BY THOMAS KEBLE. 181 way, whether in the way of doing or suffering, to seek only their heavenly Father's will, trusting to the aid of the Eternal Spirit through life, and for final acceptance, only to the blood of the ever- lasting covenant Then, said He, though " in the world,' 1 i.e. in your frail condition as weak and sinful mortals, " ye shall have tribulation," yet " be of good cheer ; I have overcome the world/' Now, to us these words are spoken no doubt as much as to those who heard them from the Saviour's lips. We, if we are indeed sincere in our Christian profession, we too must feel in a manner separated and absent from our heavenly Lord — in this world we must " have tribulation." And it is plain, from this discourse of our Lord's, that what the lowly Psalmist 1 82 SERMON BY THOMAS KEBLE. said long before of his own case, is what all sincere lovers of the great and good God, whether before or since the Christian dispensation, will apply to themselves. " It is good for me [he said] that I have been afflicted/' * So plainly in this divine discourse, comprehending as one may almost say the dying words of the Saviour, the not merely benefit, but the absolute necessity of affliction in some shape or other, to wean our hearts from worldly affections, and to turn them to God, is most energetically set forth. But why the necessity of afflictions ? it may be asked. To which the answer seems to be, that without them it is scarce possible for us to have that deep, solemn, serious sense of the importance of true religion, and of the effects of our present behaviour on our condition in eternity. I 1 Ps. cxix. 71 (Bible Version). SERMON BY THOMAS KEBLE. 183 say we need, the most of us, some very solemn and striking warning to make us feel these things as we ought. We are too apt, the best of us, to go on from day to day, as if we were sufficiently secure of our spiritual interests, and then we grow cold and slack in our devotion, in our acknowledgment of the greatness of our privileges, and the greatness too of our danger. And when these great matters are for- gotten, or at least but faintly remembered in the bustle of daily thoughts and business, then the heart by degrees becomes less open to a sense of the love and mercies of our God and Redeemer, and we make the attempt (alas ! how vainly) to " have peace " in worldly com- forts and satisfactions, too much forgetting our only, our Almighty Friend. Indeed, He plainly tells us that "in Him we may 1 84 SERMON BY THOMAS KEBLE. have peace," this peace He offers us if only we will yield ourselves to His love and service. Not that we are to expect anything like freedom from afflictions, nay, quite the contrary. " In the world ye shall have tribulation." Peace in Christ Jesus, and tribulation in the world go together, you see, to make up the true '• Christian's destiny." And then if we be indeed true Christians, to us no doubt has been addressed the gracious farewell encouragement of the King of Martyrs. "Be of good cheer; I have overcome the world." Nothing, then, remains, but that for the little time longer we have to remain in this world, we seek rest and peace only in the love and service of our Lord and Master. Nor expect at all to have this peace without tribulation, but rather receive SERMON BY THOMAS KEBLE. 185 tribulation even thankfully as the seal and pledge of peace. That in all our conduct, but especially in what we call our religion, we be very sincere, and full of awe, and quite in earnest, as remembering in Whose presence we are. 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