WE have lately been informed in many quarters, so that the remark is becoming a commonplace in the daily and weekly newspapers, that the clergy of this generation, in their pursuit of novelty, have broken away from the severe and sensible religion of ...
WE have lately been informed in many quarters, so that the remark is becoming a commonplace in the daily and weekly newspapers, that the clergy of this generation, in their pursuit of novelty, have broken away from the severe and sensible religion of their forefathers in the venerable Church of England. Hence, it is said, matters are approaching a serious crisis. The road taken by the great bulk of the clergy is more and more diverging from the narrow way in which the laity have always walked and mean to walk, and soon the two parties will be out of eyeshot and earshot.