The Church the State And the Poor a Series of Historical Sketches
The Church the State And the Poor a Series of Historical Sketches
W Edward William Edward Chadwick
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Probably the last qualification for an aspirant to a bishopric in the days of Walpole would have been organizing ability. Again, "what would now be considered the most ordinary parts of parochial machinery were then wanting. . . . The population of the country had far outgrown the resources of the National Church, even if her ministers had been as energetic as they were generally the reverse, and there were no voluntary societies for home missions to supply the defects of the parochial machiner...y. . . . Beyond the personal influence which a clergyman might exercise over his friends and 1 In the years preceding this Convocation had been doing much good work (see Abbey and Overton, " The English Church in the Eighteenth Century, " pp. 283 et seq. }. On the causes which led to the silencing of Con- vocation, see" A History of the English Church" (Macmillans), vol. Vii. , pp. 1 6 et seq. 10 146 THE CHURCH, THE STATE, AND THE POOR dependants in his parish . . . His clerical work consisted solely in reading the services and preaching on Sundays.
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