This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 Excerpt: ...practical and consider the position and power of their living lineal representatives, the present patrons, and we shall see that a very desirable reform might be easily effected. These persons are not altogether destitute of zeal for the spiritual welfare of those for whom, before God and man, they are in one way ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 Excerpt: ...practical and consider the position and power of their living lineal representatives, the present patrons, and we shall see that a very desirable reform might be easily effected. These persons are not altogether destitute of zeal for the spiritual welfare of those for whom, before God and man, they are in one way responsible. "The position of pluralist patrons gives them an equal interest, and involves them in equal responsibility, for the spiritual welfare of all the parishioners of all the livings in their gift. Let this be granted. Then it follows that every patron of two or more livings, as he has, from his property interest in them, a moral right, so, through his being their spiritual trustee, it seems a duty on his part to adjust the incomes of all parishes in his gift, according to their relative requirements. "Were this simple and just reform enacted by the Legislature, the bishop, or some other high authority on behalf of the Church, should be authorised to give or withhold sanction to any proposed redistribution, as a guarantee the Church will only gain by the change. "lam, Sir, yours, &c, "J. Godson." "These towns are teeming with artisans and workmen, who have taken a standing which their ancestors knew nothing of, and they are bent on seizing the knowledge and power which may be denied them by their rulers, able, if they would, to guide their tendencies and gratify their appetite with wholesome food. Socialists, infidels, sceptics, and schismatics of every shade of opinion are working on these masses, and are gaining the post which devotion, zeal, and popular power will always gain over men of thinking and intelligent mind."l This pressing difficulty would in great measure be met were the colleges required...
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