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Excerpt from Episcopacy: And Other Sermons In a former volume, Evolution and Other Papers, some account was given of Dr. Salmon's life, of his eminence as a mathematician, and of his services to religion by his work in the region of Biblical criticism. As an enquirer into the truth or falsity of Christianity he possessed three needful qualifications in the highest degree, he had acquired an immense range of knowledge, he was endowed with an extraordinarily powerful and subtle intellect, and such was his honesty and his courage that he would shrink from no conclusions to which his investigations led him. That such a man should be a sincere believer in Christ was therefore a very great strength to many whose faith had been shaken by modern criticism and sceptical speculation. In this volume some discussions on another class of subjects are offered to the reader. They are not concerned with the defences of Christianity from external attacks, but with the differences that prevail amongst Christians. Dr. Salmon was a loyal son of the Anglican Communion, he was convinced that her doctrines, organization, and uses were, in the main, right, and he was always ready to defend them with vigour and acumen, but never with the least breach of Christian charity. On the one side he fully believed that the Church, in the intention of her Founder, is a visible Society, that it was His wish that it should not consist of a number of independent units, however closely connected by bonds of friendship, like allied nations bound together by treaties, but should be a single entity, composed of National Branches, all loyal to the same doctrines, discipline, and laws, so far as these dealt with essentials, and officered by a ministry, whose Orders could be traced to the Apostles, and therefore to Christ Himself. On the other hand, he held that each National Branch was, in the original idea, left free to legislate for itself in all non-essentials, and he warmly repudiated the claims of the Branch in any single city, such as Rome, to enforce her authority over the rest of the Christian world. 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.