Excerpt from More "Copy" A Second Series of Essays From an Editor's Drawer on Religion, Literature and Life Perhaps we have not considered what these men have to give up, how great the sacrifice they have to make. The Church preserves a rigid and unbending attitude. She makes no movement, takes no step, removes no obstacle. Is it quite right? Is it just the position for a body that prays and works for unity among Christian men? In what we are going to say we scarcely think it possible we shall be misunderstood. None can hold more firmly than our selves to the doctrine of the Preface to the Ordinal. None can be more convinced of the essential need of an Apostolic authority to qualify a man for the ministry of Christ's Church. And it is just because we so hold and are so convinced, that we think it high time the American Church made the conferring of that authority, upon such as desire to have a ministry about whose validity they are in doubt, less hard and bitter. 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.