Report of the Proceedings (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: as they are; not mix np half-educated and wholly-educated together; keep our high-class parish priest at the head of every parish; raise him rather than lower him; mise him in intelligence, raise him in social position; above all, raise him?rather may God's Holy Spirit raise him !?in devotion and godliness; but under him, and as supporting and strengthening him, use all the energy, and all the devotion, and even all the restlessness and enthusiasm, curbed and chastened, of Christian men and Christian women, be they gentle or simple, learned or ignorant, high or lowly. So only, I believe, will it be possible to retain the true efficiency of the Church, and to evangelize the people of England. OEDEES. By Rev. F. C. MASSINGBERD, M.A. In order to avoid unnecessary detail, it may, I think, be taken for granted, that we are confronted in the present day by two enormous deficiencies in our ecclesiastical system, ?the want of men, and the want of maintenance for men, who should devote themselves to the ministry of the Church. Our population is fivefold what it was at the Reformation, and that population perhaps fivefold as much congregated, while the number of our clergy, of all ranks, is below what it then was. Of all ranks?for the small increase of diocesan bishops is more than counterbalanced by the discontinuance of suffragan bishops, so called equally before as since the Act of Henry VIII., which now regulates their appointmentk. On the other hand, the provision for the maintenance of the clergy is greatly less than it then was, and so far as endowment is concerned there is no prospect of any sensible increase. Dismissing, therefore, all discussion on these preliminary matters, and taking them as proved, the question is how this great want can be supplied. ...