Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Churchman to Churchmen: A Series of Lectures on Matters of Controversy at the Present Day I rejoice in the publication of A Church man to Churchmen. The book is yaluable for its own sake; and then, as a sign of the times, full of encouragement to those who love the Church of England as she really is. It is excellent in itself. Within its modest compass lies a mass of facts, arranged, discussed, and illustrated with great accuracy and ability; and the facts are, too many of them, just those which have been either dropped out of sight, or carefully put out of sight, of recent years in quarters supposed to be specially true to the Church. I for one thank God for this restate ment, equally careful and popular, temperate and distinct, of what the English Church really says and really does not say, about Church, Ministry, and Sacraments. Not one sentence Violates Christian kindliness and fairness. But the writer has found out how, all the more effectually, to' speak unpopular truth. And to contrast it with popular error. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.