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the Darbyites; H. Groves, Darbyism; and the anonymous Darbyite Discipline, or a Buoy fixed by a Friendly Hand on a Sunken Rock. Allusions to the episode are very frequent in the pamphlet literature of Brethrenism for many years. Unfortunately I have not been able to see the Correspondence of the Walworth and the Priory Gatherings, and other contemporary correspondence.

CHAPTER XII

J. N. Darby, The Sufferings of Christ, Collected Writings, Doctrinal, vol. ii. (The controversial matter will be found in the Preface (Collected Writings), originally issued with the first reprint, and in the Introduction(Collected Writings), issued with the reprint of 1867, i.e., after the schism.) P. F. Hall, Grief upon Grief, and Appendix (Hall). W. H. Dorman, Close of Twenty-Eight Years of Association with J. N. D.; High Church Claims of “the Exclusive Brethren”a Series of Letters to Mr. J. L. Harris. “Tertius,” Divers and Strange Doctrines Stated and Examined (well worth reading,—thoughtful, and, though extremely firm, charitable).

A tract in opposition to Darby and his school appeared in 1868, entitled The Recent Doctrines of the Five; but it has been justly criticised as unpardonably inaccurate. The literature of this controversy was very extensive.

CHAPTER XIV

The literature bearing on the period of this chapter and the next is still voluminous. A few of the most important tracts are here mentioned. It is impossible to give all the rest that have been consulted, and unsatisfactory to make a further selection. Of the events related in this chapter the present writer has had personal knowledge. A great many private letters, chiefly autographs, have also been utilised.

J. N. Darby, “Letter from Pau,” printed and extensively circulated; Letter to H. J. Jull; unprinted correspondence with Dr. Cronin, and other unprinted letters. J. H., A