Subscription the disgrace of the English Church [2nd edition]

by C. N. Wodehouse

Transcribed from the 1843 Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans [second edition] by David Price.

SUBSCRIPTION
THE DISGRACE
OF
THE ENGLISH CHURCH.

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BY
THE REV. C. N. WODEHOUSE,
CANON OF NORWICH.

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SECOND EDITION.

London:
LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS.
NORWICH: CHARLES MUSKETT.

1843.

SUBSCRIPTION
THE DISGRACE OF THE ENGLISH CHURCH.

In human affairs, when attention is powerfully attracted to some question of absorbing interest, the effect frequently is as though one half only of the subject were visible to the eyes of the understanding. The mind fixes on some peculiar point. On that a partial light is exclusively cast; till in time it is discovered that others, consigned for a while to an unnatural obscurity, are in reality of greater moment. They have quietly grown in importance—like hardy trees unnoticed by the planter, as not requiring his care—till they are suddenly developed in their true character and vigour, to the astonishment of those who had overlooked them; and demand, if it be not too late, the deepest attention and the most active intelligence to control or direct them.