Excerpt from The Parochial System: A Charge Delivered to the Clergy of the Diocese of London, at His Primary Visitation in November 1871 Melvill, one of the most eloquent of preachers and humblest of Christians, who in the height of his popularity, while crowded audiences were listening with hushed attention to his brilliant and thought ful discourses, maintained unimpaired the simplicity of a child: Archdeacon Hale, the friend and coun sellor of Bishop Blomfield, ever sagacious and active in the business of the diocese and. Of the Societies of the Church, kind, genial and sympathising, with whom has perished a long-stored treasure of eccle siastical and legal lore: and Dean Manse], whose powerful and subtile intellect had traversed all sys tems and grappled With the most formidable prob lems of mental and moral philosophy, had drawn from the armory which had supplied the Pantheist and the Materialist, weapons to defend the truth, and had proved that it is possible to have mastered the transcendental metaphysics of modern Europe, yet to retain a firm and simple faith in the Gospel. 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.