The Progress of Morals: Day 5

Number of sermons read: 12  (sixty sermons so far...)
Date range: 1835-1850
Authors of interest: A few well-known gentlemen today, including the evangelical Edward Bickersteth (a leading light of the Church Missionary Society) and the High Church Walter Farquhar Hook (the first High Churchman I've read so far, I think). 
Running themes: the"Romish Aggression" (restoration of the Church Hierarchy in 1850); hermeneutics; sacraments; Protestant apathy; necessity of preserving the Reformation legacy; Catholicism's appeal to fallen human nature (one more time...); novelty vs. apostolicity.
Points of interest: After all the evangelical members of the Establishment, both the High Church and Dissenting figures stick out like sore thumbs (the latter have been the least...heated...speakers so far).  I'd be interested in knowing where these folks are getting their statistics, as many of them neglect to cite their sources.  (As I've noted here before, Victorian references generally fail to meet MLA standards...)  Incidentally, if one more clergyman announces something to the effect that he "didn't intend to publish this sermon, but I was entreated to do so by my parishioners," I am going to jump in the nearest time machine, teleport back to the nineteenth century, and shake him. Very hard.