Cui Bono?

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Excerpt from Cui Bono?: An Open Letter to Lord Halifax on the Present Crisis in the Church of EnglandLittle more than three years have elapsed since the Church of England exulted in a great electoral triumph. The Nation had spoken its mind in no uncertain tones, and that mind was decisively adverse to the policy of Disestablishment. On all hands men of affairs were heard to declare that the question had been laid to rest for a generation at least. To-day Disestablishment is on many men's tongues, and in all men's minds. The Leader of the Liberal Opposition seems half disposed to risk again, and on a greater scale, the experiment which wrecked his party in 1895. The Liberation Society exhibits once more its baleful activity. The' Free Churches gather eagerly to another and more hopeful onslaught on their hereditary foe. Where yesterday all was dejection and perplexity, to-day there are all the signs of ardour and purpose. A transformation, equally surprising and melancholy, has passed over the political landscape. The victors of 1895 talk with apprehension and uncertainty: the vanquished never exulted in fairer chances. Nor is this all. The change has gone deeper. Grave Churchmen, to whom the idea of Disestablishment has been abhorrent, and who have hitherto rejected the very suggestion of Dis-i endowment as a manifest impiety, are now discussing the necessity of the one, and the conditions of the other. A section of the clergy, neither numerically small nor personally insignificant, openly declares that in the.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.