A Churchman to Churchmen: A Series of Lectures on Matters of Controversy at the Present Day (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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The responsibility of publishing these Lectures must rest with my Congregation rather than myself. Delivered in Lent, at a time of much pressure, they were wrung from me by a sense of their need. It is indisputable that a large number of the most spiritual, active, and intelligent members of the Church of England are slowly drifting from her Communion, and are merely held together where they can enjoy a simple ritual in worship and Scriptural teaching. The reason is not far to seek. On all sides they observe practices tolerated, and doctrines avowed, from which this country was purged at the Reformation, and which they have been hitherto accustomed to associate with the Church of Rome. A deep distrust of the Bishops, and, in many cases, of the position of their own Church, has, beyond question, taken possession of their inmost souls. What is the consequence?

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