THE ECCLESIASTICAL EXPANSION OF ENGLAND IN THE GROWTH OF THE ANGLICAN COMMUNION THE HULSEAN LECTURES FOR 1894-95 BY ALFRED BARRY, D.D., D.C.L. FORMERLY BISHOP OF SYDNEY AND PRIMATE OF AUSTRALIA AND TASMANIA DD45 143.870 1906 1.20 PREFACE THE one object of these Lectures-delivered on the Hulsean Foundation in 1894-95-is to make some slight contribution to that awakening of interest in the extraordinary religious mission of England, which seems happily characteristic of the present time. The first thing needful is certainly to bring before our people some plain historical account of the actual facts and conditions of the case, of the wonderful opportunities opened by God's Providence to our English Christianity,—of the extent to which, in various methods and degrees, they have been used for the propagation of His Gospel. There has been, and still is, a singular ignorance on these points, even among earnest and educated Christian men-corresponding, perhaps, to that ignorance of the world-wide scope of English influence and responsibility in the political sphere, which it has been of late the object of some of our most statesmanlike |