Excerpt from Our Heritage in the Church The papers give a vivid picture of the Japanese Church and of the characteristics of the Bishop. Bishop Bickersteth was with the fullest convic tion a loyal son of our English Church. He accepted without reserve our formularies as re presenting the truth in correspondence with our history and endowments. But he justly valued the independence of national churches, and pro vided with jealous care that the Japanese should receive the heritage of the Catholic Faith with out the additions which have been required by local conditions in the West. Thus he is careful to note that our T flirty-nine Articles - precious as they are to us in relation to our own history are accepted only provisionally by the Church of Japan (pp. 144 ff). On the other hand, he rightly vindicates the permanence of the Church's marriage law as it has been maintained from the beginning (p. 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.