THE CONGREGATIONALIST. "Da quod jubes et jube quod vis."—AUGUSTINE. VOL. XIV. JANUARY TO DECEMBER, 1885. LONDON: 27, PATERNOSTER Row. THEOLOGICAL LIBRARY H78,506 Period. Congregationalist UNWIN BROTHERS, THE GRESHAM PRESS, CHILWORTH AND LONDON. Ambleside Alps under Snow, 302. Atonement, Prominence of the, 346, Bampton Lecture, Canon Fremantle's, Belgium, Recent Crisis in, and the Cecil Harvey, 21, 99, 188, 291, 357, Christian Work Abroad, 153, 254, 334, Church History of the Times, 373. Churches, Our; their Work and their Commonplace Book, Leaves from the Congregational Items, 155, 413. Contemporary Pulpit in its Influence Congregational Churches, Missions in, 368. Congregational Union on the Foreign Congregational Union Examinations Cross of Christ: a Good Friday Current Literature, 74, 162, 246, 331, Difficulties, The Soudan, 234. Disestablishment and Church Reform, Disestablishment Controversy, Pre- Innocents' Day, 48. Introduction to the New Testament, Leaves from the Editor's Common- Liberation Society, The Times on the, Light and Shade in Human Life, 116. Memories in Rome of Early Chris- Missions in Congregational Churches, Moffat, Robert and Mary, 743. New Year: What shall we do with it? Nineteenth Century Theology, 337. Notes of the Month, 63, 148, 403, 481, Preparation of the Soil, 535. Prince of Peace, The, 675. Pulpit, The Contemporary, in its In- Religious Work of the London Congre- Reviews, 71, 157, 241, 325, 405, 485, Revised Version, The, 417. Sacraments, The Christian, and Chris- Scotland, Disestablishment in, 778. Times, The, on the Liberation Society, Welch, John Kemp, 209. Years, Our, and Thine, 11. The Congregationalist. JANUARY, 1885. FIVE HUNDRED YEARS AGO AND NOW. THE year 1385 opened on England impoverished to an extent of which her people themselves were utterly unconscious. Professor Montagu Burrows speaks of John Wiclif, Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Milton as the four men who have exercised the greatest influence on the English language and literature. On the last day of 1384 had passed away John Wiclif, who, when we consider the effect which his translation of the Bible produced, may be regarded as in some sense the most influential of them all. But great as the work which he did for our literature, it was the least part of the service which he had rendered to his country. We employ no language of extravagant eulogy when we say that by the death of Wiclif England had been deprived of the greatest of her sons. In a generation of distinguished men he was the most eminent and illustrious of all. In the university, in the closet of the statesman, in the public gatherings of the people, in the quiet labours of the parish, he had done a work which did not end with his mortal life, and much of which remains to this day. It is a singular feature in a career so illustrious that he should have died as the Rector of Lutterworth; but even this is a testimony to the solid worth and true greatness of the man. The trusted friend and counsellor of the great Duke of Lancaster, who for years was the virtual ruler of the country, the idol of his university on the one hand and of the populace on the other, the honoured representative of the nation and the champion of its cause as against the Papacy VOL. XIV. 1 |