. Mediæval and modern history . wnchurches, in which the greatmasses were instructed andcared for spiritually, had tobe kept up by voluntarycontributions. The rank injustice in thusforcing the Irish Catholics tosupport not merely a Church, in which they did not believebut a Church which they re-garded with special aversionand hatred as the symbol oftheir subjection and perse-cution, was perceived anddeclaimed against by not afew even among the EnglishProtestants themselves. The proposal to do awaywith this grievance by thedisestablishment of the StateChurch in Ireland was bit-terly opposed by
. Mediæval and modern history . wnchurches, in which the greatmasses were instructed andcared for spiritually, had tobe kept up by voluntarycontributions. The rank injustice in thusforcing the Irish Catholics tosupport not merely a Church, in which they did not believebut a Church which they re-garded with special aversionand hatred as the symbol oftheir subjection and perse-cution, was perceived anddeclaimed against by not afew even among the EnglishProtestants themselves. The proposal to do awaywith this grievance by thedisestablishment of the StateChurch in Ireland was bit-terly opposed by the Con-servatives, headed by LordDerby and Mr. Disraeli; but at length, after a memorable debate,the Liberals, under the lead of Bright and Gladstone, the latterthen Prime Minister, carried the measure. This was in 1869, butthe actual disestablishment was not to take place until the year1871, at which time the Irish Church, ceasing to exist as a stateinstitution, became a free Episcopal Church. An ancient wrongwas thus Fig. 9S. Lord Beacoxsfield (Dis-raeli), The Courtier Premier (From the monument in WestminsterAbbey) §610] DISESTABLISHMENT OF STATE CHURCH 535 610. Proposed Disestablishment of the State Church in Eng-land, Scotland, and Wales. The principle of religious equalitydemands, in the opinion of many Liberals, the disestablishmentlikewise of the State Church in England, Scotland,^ and feel that for the government to maintain any particular sectis to give the state a monopoly in religion. They would have thechurches of all denominations placed on an absolute in Scotland and Wales is the sentiment in favor ofdisestablishment very strong.^ III. ENGLANDS RELATIONS WITH IRELAND 611. Legislative Union of Great Britain and Ireland (isoo).The history of Ireland in the nineteenth century, like her historyin all preceding centuries, is in the main a story of Irish grievancesagainst England. These grievances have for the most part arisen
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