Fifty years ago . its infancy. 258 FIFTY YEARS AGO \ CHAPTER XIX. CONCLUSION. The consideration of the country as it was would notbe complete without some comparison with the countryas it is. But I will make this comparison as brief aspossible. In the Church, the old Calvinism is well-nigh dead :even the Low Church of the present day would haveseemed, fifty years ago, a kind of veiled Popery. Andthe Church has grown greater and stronger. She willbe greater and stronger still when she enlarges herborders to admit the great bodies of old grievances exist no longer: there are n
Fifty years ago . its infancy. 258 FIFTY YEARS AGO \ CHAPTER XIX. CONCLUSION. The consideration of the country as it was would notbe complete without some comparison with the countryas it is. But I will make this comparison as brief aspossible. In the Church, the old Calvinism is well-nigh dead :even the Low Church of the present day would haveseemed, fifty years ago, a kind of veiled Popery. Andthe Church has grown greater and stronger. She willbe greater and stronger still when she enlarges herborders to admit the great bodies of old grievances exist no longer: there are nopluralists: there is no non-resident Vicar: the smallbenefices are improved: Church architecture has re-vived ; the Church services are rendered with lovingand jealous care: the old reproaches are no longerhurled at the clergy: fat and lazy shepherds theycertainly are not: careless and perfunctory they can-not now be called: even if they are less scholarly,which must be sorrowfully admitted, they are
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