recall your name in connection with Church work of many kinds, and the memories of our best and dearest ones. "I trust you keep fairly well. I follow you at a distance of only two years. With much respect, very sincerely yours, We gather from a letter to a friend that Canon Carter was occupying himself in making up the 'Notes" " which he had kept of Retreats given many years ago. These were published by Messrs. Longmans in 1893, together with a reprint of the Essay on "The Church and the World," which first appeared in 1868. The book is dedicated "To the reverend memory of Bishop Wilberforce, in grateful remembrance of his earnest encouragement." It is an invaluable compendium on the subject, of which Mr. Carter was a master. Dr. Liddon used to describe him as a fountain of spiritual thought." But to those who had the privilege of attending those Retreats at Cuddesdon, these notes seem sometimes but a faint echo of the reality-the person, the face, the voice, the assembly, the surroundings, all formed part of those spiritual epochs, for such they were to many a life. They were, in the main, original methods of treatment, not rigidly following the Ignatian course, though the author was then (1863) evidently acquainted with it, as, e.g. "Address 1.-The End of Man ;" and St. Ignatius is referred to in the "Introduction," but the author states, "More formal methods since that day have naturally, in the order of things, systematized what were at first comparatively, so to say, unscientific." It is scarcely necessary to say that Mr. Carter was himself an embodiment of the spirit of Retreat. His "recollectedness" of manner, his capacity for abstraction from outward things, his spirit of prayer, his natural gentleness-above all, his love for our Lord, marked him out in the beginning as one splendidly equipped for work of this kind. It seemed to him to be no effort; he did not "give" meditations merely, but 278 MEETING AT ST. SAVIOUR'S, OSNABURGH ST. made them at the time. They were like "living water' from the spring. In 1898 Mr. Carter issued a circular, convening a number of "representative priests" for conference at St. Saviour's Hospital, Osnaburgh Street, as to limits of Ritual. This had been brought about through a few of the clergy in London and elsewhere having gone beyond the "Six Points," which had been almost from the beginning the Ritual ultimatum of the Oxford Movement. In the earlier days of this revival, a committee of elected clergy was formed for the purpose of giving advice upon such matters, when the High Church clergy moved as a body, and deferred to their leaders. Each felt that not only the interests of their own parish or congregation were at stake, but the Catholic movement; and the introduction of any unauthorized ceremonial might not only impede progress, but be the cause of losing ground already won. The Bishop of L is reported to have appealed to those whom he thought guilty of excesses to accept what was carried out at this meeting, but without success. Mr. Carter adds, "I am glad we had our testimony, and trust it will gather sympathizers." But on the other side, he adds "I see the danger you apprehend. I suppose the bishop's tendency will be to reduce. When I asked the B-to allow the reservation of the Blessed Sacrament for the sake of the sick, he let me do so, but would not give special license. It seems a fear that you will take an ell if you give an inch. It is so strange to me that they do not see that the way to stop perpetual reservation is to speak decidedly on the original permission to reserve for the sick. But, as you say, you cannot bind the bishops to maintain what we have won. I suppose in this [there is] a tendency of fear and suspicion." "MY DEAR "May 22, 1898. There is an interesting matter now going on, The Bishop of has appealed to to know. whether he and his companions would not now accept what was carried at our meeting; but he and his companions declined, giving as their reasons what they had seen of the Bishop of not holding to true Episcopal rule and authority. Afterwards the Bishop of - went to St. to confirm, and had a long conversation with the clergy, and I have not yet heard the final result. You will have seen what passed in Convocation. I am glad we had our testimony, and trust it will gather sympathies. "Yours, "T. T. C." CHAPTER IX. LITERATURE. He LITTLE has been said in this volume of Rev. T. T. Carter as a man of letters. His literary activity from early years to almost the close of his life was most remarkable. wrote with extraordinary rapidity. His style demanded an attentive reader, because his sentences were often long, and sometimes involved. His busy pen was nearly always employed upon matters pertaining to the spiritual life. But while he was capable of high and sustained flights of devotion, his mental activity was commonly exercised in the sphere of the practical, and blended with the sweetness of his disposition and the evidences of a loving heart. At the beginning of his ministry as Rector of Clewer he manifested very great interest in the conditions of the dwellings of the poor, and started some plans of sanitary reform. This came to the ears of Prince Albert, and he sent to confer with him on the subject. The result of this interview was the formation of an association for the betterment of the households of the poor, which still exists, and is named the Prince Consort's Association at Windsor. The Rector also was the means of providing a Benefit Society on safe principles, in contrast, as to security, to those which had existed in the parish and from which the poor had suffered. Mr. Carter's earliest publication, which was issued in the year 1839, was entitled "Eton System of Education Vindicated." The next was upon the Blessings of the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper," in the following year, about which mystery he has written so much since. Then followed, in 1836, a paper on the "Duties and Blessings of the Christian Sabbath." It is quite impossible within our limits to give a sketch of his literary life from 1836 to 1899, when he published his last work, a volume of sermons, entitled "The Spirit of Watchfulness." There are two remarks to be made on this volumeone, that it is an evidence of his mental and spiritual power in his ninety-first year; the other, a near relative observes upon the sermon in this volume for St. Paul's Day, p. 284: "It seems to me that what he says in his sermon on St. Paul's Day on the consecrated life' may be said of himself." Two works on the "Doctrine of the Priesthood" and the "Doctrine of Confession," published in the fifties, were the outcome of addresses, which Mr. Carter delivered before the members of the Clerical Society of the two deaneries of Burnham and Bray, and were dedicated to the brethren of that Society. It numbered some distinguished men in the locality, and the discussions were most interesting. Both of these books, in those early days, bear witness to the same apparatus theologicus as he made use of in riper years, and the same fontes-Holy Scripture, the "undivided Church," the records of antiquity, and the teaching of the Church of England. He maintained in the former book the Sacerdotal against the Presbyter view; and in the latter, makes full use of the Office for the Visitation of the Sick, and the Commission to the Priesthood, from Prayer-book and Bible, and the testimony of antiquity. These are samples of the author's controversial powers, his fairness in reasoning and calm temper. About the year 1860 Rev. T. T. Carter, as a preacher, was approaching the zenith of his powers. At All Saints, Margaret Street, he preached in the first Lent in the new church on Thursdays, and the sermons, which were upon "the Imitation of our Lord Jesus Christ," were published by Messrs. Masters. He dealt with "the definiteness" and "universality of our Lord's example," the discipline of the will," etc. Two years later a volume of "Sermons," twenty-four in number, was published and |