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Excerpt from The Agitation Against the Oxford Movement: An Address by Viscount Halifax, President of E. C. U., Read at the Annual Meeting at the Church House on June 15th, 1899
The crisis in the Church - that seems to be the proper way of describing the present agitation - has now lasted some sixteen months. It is running the course which might have been predicted for it, and that course suggests certain observations to which I desire to draw your atten tion to-day.
In the first place, we have to thank the agitation for demonstrating the necessity of such an organisation as this Union.
If so many of our countrymen were not as ignorant and prejudiced about Church matters as they are, if all the members of the Church acted up to their principles, the Union might be dissolved to-morrow.
Unfortunately, we have only to look round to see how very far this is from being the case, and till those who profess their belief in the Catholic Church every time they recite the Creed, understand a little better what such belief involves, a Society such as ours is an absolute necessity to defend elementary Church principles and practices from the ignorant and unprincipled attacks to which they are exposed.
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