Reform, which among other things suggested radical changes in cathedral and collegiate establishments, and a Commission to manage church income and property. The Ecclesiastical Commission was in fact set up in 1835. In the summer of 1833 there was already enough to make the slogan ‘Church in danger’ heard on many sides. Keble spoke of this sense of a crisis in church affairs as an urgent need to stop the erosion of its ecclesiastical status and restore its recognition as a divine society. Yet his