Excerpt from A Charge to the Clergy of the Diocese of St. David's, by Connop, Lord Bishop of St. David's, Delivered at His Primary Visitation, October, 1842 The occasion on which we are assembled, while it invites us to consider the present state of that portion of our Church which is the scene of our labours, naturally leads us to take a glance at the past, which contains the germs and causes of all that we have immediately before our eyes: as it is only by the light which the past and the present reflect on each other that we can hope to form a probable surmise as to the future. There is indeed much in this retrospect, as well as in the survey of what we now. 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.