“The Oxford Movement is a spent force.” Several recent writers and speakers, both Catholic and Anglican, on either side of the Atlantic, have given utterance to this phrase, which has been indignantly denied by High Church leaders, and even by Catholics whose interest in non-Catholic affairs has led them to study the present situation of our separated brethren. In view of the recent demonstration of the Anglo-Catholic Congress, and the marked activity of the English Church Union under the able leadership of its new Secretary-General, there would seem, at first blush, to be rather a preponderance of truth in the denial, and all the more so when one remembers that the statement has been made, and denied, again and again, since the secession of Newman from the movement which he led (though he did not start it), and that to the confusion of prophets, Anglican and Roman Catholic alike, the trend towards Catholic doctrine and practice in the Establishment, and in the American Episcopal Church, has been steadily onward and upward. We do not read, nowadays, of High Church Vicars being hooted through the streets of London for daring to preach in a surplice, or imprisoned for donning other “rags of Popery.”