{"collection":"philosophy-ethics","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_64877/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_64877","id":"gutenberg_64877","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/64877","summary":null,"tags":["Category: History - Religious","Category: Philosophy & Ethics","Category: Religion/Spirituality","Church and state -- Great Britain","Church of England -- History -- 19th century","Great Britain -- Census, 1861","Truth -- Religious aspects -- Christianity"],"text":"Transcribed from the 1860 Joseph Masters edition by David Price.  Many\nthanks to the British Library for making their copy available.\n\n                          A TRACT FOR THE TIMES.\n\n                                * * * * *\n\n\n\n\n\n                                THE CHURCH\n                                   AND\n                               THE CENSUS.\n\n\n                                * * * * *\n\n                                  BY THE\n                         REV. JAMES SKINNER, M.A.\n\n                                * * * * *\n\n                                 LONDON:\n                    JOSEPH MASTERS, ALDERSGATE STREET,\n                           AND NEW BOND STREET.\n\n                                 MDCCCLX.\n\n                                * * * * *\n\n                                 LONDON:\n                    PRINTED BY JOSEPH MASTERS AND CO.,\n                            ALDERSGATE STREET.\n\n                                * * * * *\n\n\n\n\nTHE CHURCH AND THE CENSUS.\n\n\nI DESIRE to say what follows, in all earnestness, to my fellow-countrymen\nwho have been, through GOD\u2019S goodness, baptized into the Church of\nEngland.  I shall be thankful, also, if others will patiently consider\nwhat is here set down.\n\nThere can be no question that, in old times, GOD was pleased to set up a\nvisible token, whereby the world might be convinced of His power and\nlove.  And this token was also a witness to GOD\u2019S Truth.  No one doubts\nthat the Jewish Church and nation were the witnesses of GOD; and that\nthey were His witnesses by His own express appointment.  It is equally\nallowed, on all hands, that the Jewish Church and nation failed in their\nwitness.  They failed\u2014not because the need of witnessing had been taken\naway; or their authority to witness had been loosened.  But they failed,\nbecause, having the power of choice free\u2014to stand by GOD or to desert\nHim, they chose to desert Him.  They failed, because they chose to blind\nthemselves to the need of witnessing.  They failed, because they chose to\nset at nought that authority to witness with which they had been clothed.\nGOD\u2019S law of always having His witness did not fail.  The very failure of\nthe Jewish Church and nation, in the place of witness, _was_ a witness.\nThe Jewish Church and nation could desert its place of witness.  It could\nprefer its own will to GOD\u2019S will.  It could prefer the will of the\npeople to the will of GOD.  It could prefer the kingdom of this world to\nthe kingdom of Heaven.  And it _did_ prefer its own will, and the will of\nthe people, and the kingdom of this world.\n\nLook at the prophecy of Hosea, and what is there said of all Israel in\nthe name of Ephraim.  Read the seventh chapter.  The Prophet is reproving\nthe sins of the princes, and the great men of Israel.  \u201cAll their kings\nare fallen.\u201d  The flame of civil discord has spread, and dried up the\nsources of legitimate authority among them.  An anarchy of eleven years,\nafter the death of Jeroboam II., has terminated in the assassination of\nZachariah and his successors Shallum and Pekahiah.  \u201cAnd yet there is\nnone among them that calleth unto Me,\u201d saith the LORD.\n\nAnd then, he denounces judgment against the people in the mass, for their\nhypocrisy and unfaithfulness.  Whereas, by GOD\u2019S institution, they were a\npeculiar people,\u2014witnesses for GOD, and separate from the world, \u201cthey\nhave mixed themselves among the people,\u201d\u2014that is, among the idolaters of\nthe land,\u2014they are \u201cas a cake not turned,\u201d as a cake baked only on one\nside; serving GOD by halves, halting between two masters; worshipping GOD\na little, and worshipping idols a little, and worshipping nothing much.\nAnd so, as a consequence, what must have followed, _did_ follow.  The\nSyrians, in the time of Jehoahaz, reduced them to great straits.  They\nhad but fifty horsemen and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen. {5}\nThey were \u201cmade like the dust by threshing.\u201d  Shortly after, in the days\nof Menahem, they became tributaries to Pul, king of Assyria. {6}  And at\nlength they were carried away captive bodily by Shalmaneser.\n\nNow, all this has a forcible application to a spiritual state of things,\nand sets forth the condition of the Church in the world, as at other\ntimes, so especially at this time in which we live.\n\nEphraim is the witness of GOD\u2014testifying GOD\u2019S Truth,\u2014bearing GOD\u2019S\ncommission\u2014appointed in the world to win and attract the people,\u2014to draw\nthem upward, far above worldly measures of things to the divine measure\nof things\u2014to the things which shall be in the eternal Future, and to the\nfixed and unchangeable will of GOD, on which that eternal Future stands.\nBut \u201cEphraim hath mixed himself\u201d with the people,\u2014he has \u201clearned their\ninventions,\u201d\u2014he has adapted his witness to their demands,\u2014he has lowered\nhis standard of GOD\u2019S appointment to the people\u2019s standard of human\nconstruction.  So that GOD\u2019S teaching and man\u2019s teaching have become\nconfused and indifferently accepted, and they who have fallen into grave\nerrors of faith are in no sense differently esteemed from those who have\nmaintained the truth as revealed by GOD, and as witnessed by the Church\nin every land, in every age, by every tongue.\n\nAnd so, the spiritual Ephraim, who was set up for a witness to the truth,\nhas become \u201ca cake not turned,\u201d a half-equipped soldier in the fight,\nwith but half a heart to his Master\u2019s service.\n\nWhat is the occasion which now presses?  While many of us are praising\nGOD in grateful love for His unspeakable mercy in vouchsafing us His\nTruth\u2014His determinate and fixed Truth\u2014in which alone souls are saved\u2014His\nTruth, as divinely committed to the Church \u201cthe pillar and ground of the\nTruth,\u201d\u2014and handed down from age to age in every land,\u2014His Truth as\nmercifully retained and maintained in the Prayer Book of the Church of\nEngland,\u2014set forth with categorical precision in the three Creeds of\nuniversal Christendom, and expanded and applied in the offices of Holy\nBaptism and the Communion of the Body and Blood of CHRIST\u2014while we are\nkeeping solemn festival to the Glory of GOD, and the power of His Truth,\nthe \u201creligious world\u201d is exciting itself with vexing hopes and fears\nabout the decennial Census which the State is about to take of the\nreligious condition of the country.\n\nI do not believe that this question excites churchmen, or that they care,\nexcept as a matter of political justice, what becomes of it.  For\nthemselves they know what they are, and where they stand, and in Whom\nthey trust.  And they are \u201cready always to give an answer to every man\nthat asketh them a reason of the hope that is in them.\u201d  With no\n\u201cuncertain sound,\u201d or doubting heart, but with plainness and boldness, as\nChristian men and women, \u201cstanding fast in one spirit, with one mind\nstriving together for the faith of the Gospel, and nothing terrified by\ntheir adversaries.\u201d {8}\n\nBut it is a question full of importance, because of the evidence which it\ndraws out of the condition of men\u2019s minds among whom we live, and because\nof the lesson which that evidence reads to ourselves.\n\nI do not enter upon the question whether it is right or wrong for the\nstate to ask people about their religion.  My own conviction is that,\nunder the distracting circumstances of religion in this country, it would\nbe better and wiser for the state to abstain.  And yet in common sense\nthe state may as well demand information as to my religious profession,\nas in respect of my age or worldly calling.  But the question having been\nraised, what is this evidence which it has brought to light, and which I\nsay is so grave in its results?  There is a vehement, almost a\n_passionate_ resistance of the proposition, that men should give an\naccount of their faith.\n\nIt is true that JESUS CHRIST, the very Saviour and Redeemer of our souls,\nhas said, \u201cWhosoever shall confess Me _before men_, him will I confess\nalso before My FATHER which is in heaven; and whosoever shall deny Me\n_before men_, him will I also deny before My FATHER which is in heaven.\u201d\n{9a}  But people on all sides are saying, \u201cnot so\u2014not before\nmen,\u2014religion is a private and secret matter between GOD and me.\u201d\n\nIt is true that holy David declared that \u201che would _speak_ even before\nkings and not be ashamed,\u201d {9b} that S. John Baptist \u201cconfessed and\ndenied not, but confessed;\u201d {9c} that S. Paul, for himself, \u201ccontinued\n_witnessing_ to small and great,\u201d {10a} and in the name of all Christians\nlaid it down that \u201cwe believe and _therefore speak_,\u201d {10b} and that\n\u201cevery _tongue_ should confess.\u201d {10c}  But people on all sides are\nsaying, \u201cNot so\u2014not confess, not witness, not speak,\u2014any other test you\nplease; number us as we sit here or stand there; but do not ask us to\nspeak.  We prefer to take our place with the \u2018chief rulers who believed,\nbut did not confess;\u2019\u2014we believe, but do not ask us to confess.\u201d\n\nAnd this resistance has two sides\u2014one political, and the other\nquasi-religious.\n\nPolitical men resist, because they say the Church of England holds them,\nand yet does _not_ hold them.  It holds them politically, gives them, if\nthey demand it, baptism, or communion, or churching, or burial.  Yet it\ndoes _not_ hold them because they object to her services, and usages, and\nprefer preachers of their own, and _other_ doctrines than hers.  \u201cWe are\nChurchmen,\u201d say these people, \u201cin one sense, though not in another; and\ntherefore we prefer not to define ourselves at all.  We go to \u2018meeting,\u2019\nbut we have not parted final company with the Church.  And as\nexcommunication can alone sever the bond between us, we are glad that\nexcommunication is now unknown.\u201d\n\nSuch is one side of the opposition to the notion of defining their faith.\nHow shall they define it?  Once perhaps when the Catechism was fresh upon\nthe soft and docile mind of their childhood they might have been able,\nbut now that is a mere reminiscence.  They know not to-day what they may\nbelieve to-morrow.  Meantime they will hold on to the Church as to a\nsecular institution, and do what they can to secularize it.  It will\nbecome more useful and less mischievous in their opinion, just as men\ncease to regard it as a \u201cwitness\u201d for the glory of GOD, and a training\nschool for the salvation of souls.\n\nThe other side of the same opposition has more appearance of religious\nfeeling about it.  Men object to define their faith, because really and\nconscientiously they _have_ no faith which they _can_ define.  \u201cFalse\nshame,\u201d \u201cprocrastination,\u201d \u201cself-distrust in honourable minds,\u201d (as it\nhas been mischievously called, {11}) \u201cconsciousness of imperfection,\u201d\nsuch are the pleas with which they indulgently flatter themselves.  They\nare not yet ripe for any \u201cvisible Church;\u201d so they ignorantly and\ncomplacently express it; they mean to wait; they are not unchristian\nbecause they dare not make choice of a denomination _yet_.  Surely not.\nBy and by will be time enough.  They will make a profession some day\nthough not now.\n\nWhen I hear on every side as I mix with my fellow men, and read in every\nnewspaper, as I strive to note down the voice of the public press as it\ngains upon the popular mind, such sentiments as these, I am bound to say\nthat if this be not spiritually the reproduction of the picture of\nEphraim, as Hosea drew it in the days of Israel\u2019s apostasy, and as such,\nif it be not the accomplishment among ourselves of a prophetic\nannouncement which spiritually concerned the Church of CHRIST, I know not\nwhere to find a prophecy fulfilled.  \u201cEphraim he hath mixed himself among\nthe people: Ephraim is a cake not turned.  Strangers have devoured his\nstrength, and he knoweth it not; yea, grey hairs are here and there upon\nhim; yet he knoweth not.\u201d {12}\n\nI will now presume to say something in the presence of this calamity\nwhich afflicts the Church of CHRIST in England.\n\nI.  First, I will say that as Truth is one and indivisible, so your faith\nas English Churchmen, with the Cross of CHRIST upon your foreheads,\u2014and\nthe bond of the \u201cApostles\u2019 doctrine and fellowship\u201d in your hearts,\u2014and\nthe Prayer Book with its Catholic witness in your hands, is fixed, and\neasily defined.\n\nIt is fixed, because otherwise it could not be the Truth.  And you\npossess that which is fixed, because otherwise that which you possess\ncould not be true.  The Church of GOD is \u201cthe pillar and ground of the\nTruth;\u201d {13} and you have the Truth from the Church of GOD.\n\nThe Church of GOD does not create the Truth.  The Church of GOD does not\neven give force and power to the Truth.  But the Church of GOD is the\ndepositary of the Truth.  The Church of GOD has the Truth to keep, and to\nmaintain, and to hand down.  The Church of GOD is the orb, out of which\nthe glorious light of the Truth shines and overspreads the earth.  The\nChurch of GOD is the candlestick which holds the light.  The Church of\nGOD is the pillar on which the proclamation of the Truth is written, and\nheld up and heralded through the world.  You learn truth from that\npillar.  And that pillar is the Church of GOD?\n\nWhat Church of GOD?  The one Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church of GOD.\nThe same which delivered the \u201cdecrees of the Apostles and elders at\nJerusalem:\u201d {14} the same which confounded Arius at Nic\u00e6a: the same which\noverwhelmed Nestorius at Ephesus: the same which silenced Macedonius at\nConstantinople: the same which vanquished Eutyches at Chalcedon:\u2014the one\nHoly Church throughout the world.\n\n2.  Next, I desire to lay down this\u2014that, contrary to what the advocates\nof a religious census seem to imply\u2014truth and numbers have no relation\none to the other, unless it be that truth is with the few.  The greatest\nnumber of mankind is yet in darkness and error; as S. John says, \u201cthe\nworld lieth in wickedness.\u201d\n\nAll GOD\u2019S Word testifies that, compared with the many who forsake the\ntruth, or who never accept it, or who deny it and lose its fruits, those\nwho receive it, and live by it, and enter into its reward, are few.  Of\nall the world at the time of the Flood only eight persons were worthy to\nbe rescued.  Among all the guilty families in the cities of the plain,\nonly Lot\u2019s escaped destruction.  Of all the six hundred thousand Hebrews\ndelivered out of Egypt, though blessed with the same miracles, conducted\nby the same Guide, and nourished by the same Manna, two only entered the\npromised land.  In the taking of Jericho, of all the houses in the city\nonly the harlot Rahab\u2019s was spared.  Of all the thirty and two thousand\nsoldiers of Gideon, but three hundred were found worthy to contend for\nthe LORD.  And so, of all those olive berries and clusters of grapes set\nforth by the Prophet to describe the called of GOD,\u2014there shall be saved\nonly \u201cas the shaking of the olive tree, and as the gleaning grapes, when\nthe vintage is done.\u201d {15}\n\nTherefore Religion is not for show, but for reality.  GOD is for Truth,\nand not for numbers.  And they who are truly wise must be content, as the\nApostles of old were content, to have numbers against them, if so it be,\nand to pass in turn through good and evil report, in the honest and\nsimple defence of what is true.\n\nThis facing of the Truth against numbers is a necessity.  And if you seek\nto shun it, you are sure nevertheless to encounter it; and with all the\nmore roughness, for your efforts to escape it.  If you side with the\nmultitude, you will probably be magnified by those who are in the wrong.\nBut you will hardly escape being censured by those who are in the right.\nAnd their commendation, if it makes less noise, has more value.\n\nYou must not be dismayed, therefore, because the world is against you.\nYou must not begin a course of action because it is popular; nor must you\nabandon a course of action because it is decried.  Look to what pleases\nGOD, not to what will please the multitude.  And then you will do what is\nright.  You will be wise for GOD.  And GOD is over all.\n\n3.  Once more.  No earnest mind can entertain the thought of what is\npassing among us, without feeling that these are sifting times.  Times of\ndivision, when errors abound, are always times of sifting; times in which\nGOD is trying what men are made of; whether they are corn or chaff, gold\nor dross, wheat or tares.\n\nEphraim is \u201ca cake not turned.\u201d  But who are guilty?  \u201cI will sift the\nHouse of Israel,\u201d saith the LORD, \u201cas corn is sifted in a sieve, yet\nshall not the least grain fall upon the earth.\u201d  {17a}  This is the one\ncomfort in the midst of so much sorrow.  Whosoever is true grain, shall\nnot be lost.  See to it, then, that each soul among you is _true grain_.\n\nGOD is sifting your sincerity by the errors which He suffers to compass\nyou about.  \u201cI hear there are divisions among you, and I believe it,\u201d\nsays the Apostle, \u201cfor there _must_ be heresies among you, that they\nwhich are approved may be made manifest.\u201d {17b}  And your stability He is\nsifting\u2014whether or not you are as Reuben, \u201cunstable as water,\u201d weak, and\nsoft, and yielding, and inconstant.  And your zeal, and your knowledge,\nand your love,\u2014He is sifting all these, in this your day of probation.\n\nYou have had great gifts at GOD\u2019S Hand, unspeakable opportunities of\nknowing Him and His Truth\u2014the Word of GOD, the witness of the Church, and\nthe \u201cSpirit leading you into all Truth\u201d through the ordained means of\ngrace\u2014through Sacraments and Prayer.  How is it with you?  Are you yet\n\u201cmen\u201d in knowledge, with the \u201cfull assurance of understanding to the\nacknowledgment of the mystery of GOD, and of the FATHER, and of CHRIST,\nin Whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.\u201d {18a}  Or are\nyou \u201cchildren in understanding,\u201d \u201ctossed to and fro and carried about\nwith every wind of doctrine by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness\nwhereby they lie in wait to deceive?\u201d {18b}\n\nNow is the test of your weakness or of your strength.  Now it will be\nseen _who_ is possessed by that enervated and timid spirit which inspires\nso many faltering hearts, and directs so many enfeebled wills, in this\nday of conflict for the Church of GOD.\n\nAnd, above all, your love is being sifted.  Is your hold upon the Church\nand her teaching \u201crooted and grounded in love?\u201d  GOD is trying your\n_love_\u2014your love to Himself, to CHRIST, to the Truth.  The head is not a\ncasket in which Truth can safely lie enshrined.  It is soon stolen from\nthence.  But, if you have lodged it in the heart, and embedded it there\nin folds of love, men may take out your heart, but out of your heart they\ncannot take the Truth.\n\nIt is for want of love that so many men among us are cowards,\u2014that so\nmuch is sacrificed to the first appearance of danger,\u2014that so much is\noffered up to expediency, to popularity, to success.  The world is a\nworshipper of success.  But the world has no love for the Truth.  The\nworld knows nothing of the blessed joy of undergoing persecution and\ndanger, and making ventures, for the Truth\u2019s sake.  And so, as \u201cEphraim\nhas mixed himself\u201d with the world, he is as \u201ca cake not turned,\u201d and\n\u201cstrangers have devoured his strength,\u201d in this age of concession and\nfalling away.\n\nBut what says \u201cHe Who sitteth upon the throne?\u201d  \u201cHe that overcometh\nshall inherit all things.\u201d {19}  But the \u201cfearful\u201d or cowardly, (the\n_\u03b4\u03b5\u03b9\u03bb\u03bf\u1f76_,) and the unfaithful or \u201cunbelieving\u201d (the _\u1f04\u03c0\u03b9\u03c3\u03c4\u03bf\u03b9_,) the\ndeserters who fall off from want of faith and patience, what of them?\n\u201cthey shall have their part with murderers, and whore-mongers, and\nidolaters, and liars, in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone,\nwhich is the second death.\u201d {20a}\n\nAnd what says the Apostle?  When love is perfect {20b} then we have\n\u201cboldness in the _crisis_,\u201d or judgment, or trial, of faith; and \u201clove\ncasts out fear.\u201d  And fear is the parent of all unlawful concessions.\n\nWe owe the Truth an external service as well as an internal devotion.\nAnd they have no love for the Truth who withhold an external service.\nThe faith of the heart will no more avail without the confession of the\nmouth, than the confession of the mouth will avail without the faith of\nthe heart.\n\nIf it be enough for CHRIST that you know Him, though you confess Him not\nbefore men, it will also be enough for you that He knows you, though, at\nthe last, He confess you not before men.  It is not enough to say, \u201cI\nhold the Truth in my heart, but I am silent before the world.\u201d  And,\ntherefore, CHRIST does _not_ say, \u201che that confesseth Me in his heart;\u201d\nbut CHRIST says, \u201che that confesseth Me _before men_.\u201d  They are vital\nwords, these words of CHRIST.  Lay them up in your hearts, and live by\nthem.  Hear them at length.  \u201cWhosoever shall confess Me before men, him\nwill I confess also before My FATHER Which is in Heaven.  But whosoever\nshall deny Me before men, him will I also deny before My FATHER Which is\nin Heaven.  Think not that I am come to send peace on earth, I came not\nto send peace but a sword.  For I am come to set a man at variance\nagainst his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the\ndaughter-in-law against her mother-in-law, and a man\u2019s foes shall be they\nof his own household.  He that loveth father or mother more than Me is\nnot worthy of Me; and he that loveth son or daughter more than Me is not\nworthy of Me.  And he that taketh not his cross and followeth after Me is\nnot worthy of Me.  He that findeth his life shall lose it, and he that\nloseth his life for My sake shall find it.\u201d {21}\n\n\n\n\nPOSTSCRIPT.\n\n\nWHILE these pages are passing through the press, the Government has\nyielded the point at issue.  It has yielded, against its own convictions.\nIt has yielded to pressure,\u2014and to pressure from those whom it considers\nwrong-headed, and unreasonable, and unjust.\n\nThe Government believed and declared that it was fair, and right, and\njust, and necessary \u201cfor legislative purposes,\u201d that the people of\nEngland should _confess_ the religious profession which they make\u2014each\nman his own.  The Government still believes in the fairness, and justice,\nand necessity of such a declaration.  But, because some persons object to\nit, on the ground that no man ought to be asked what his religion is, or\nwhether he has any religion at all, and because those persons have\npolitical influence, the Government has yielded its convictions to those\npersons.\n\nThe Government loves its convictions a little.  It loves political\ninfluence much.  And so, this has come out clear\u2014whatever is just, and\nfair, and right, and even necessary for \u201clegislative purposes,\u201d has no\nchance of prevailing in the counsels of Government, unless, _first_, the\npolitical influence of the Government shall be secured.  If on the side\nof injustice, and unfairness, and the entanglement and perversion of\nlegislation, there should be political influence, that will be the side\nof the Government.  Evil consequences in the future are nothing.  Present\nplace and present power are everything.\n\nI think this ought to be a lesson to Churchmen not to put faith in\nGovernments.  The Church can never lose by any measures which are just,\nand fair, and straightforward, and open.  And, therefore, the Church had\nnothing to lose from the \u201creligious profession\u201d clause of the Census\nBill.  But as Governments do not bind themselves to keep their faith, and\nare always ready to sacrifice their convictions of justice to their lust\nof power, the Church must have no trust in Governments.\n\nThe object of this tract is not affected by the weak and pitiful conduct\nof the Government.  It never was my object to defend the \u201creligious\nprofession\u201d clause.  I have said that, considering the religious\ndistractions of this country, I think it would be wiser for the\nGovernment to leave the religious profession of the people alone.  And I\nsay so still.  Never to have proposed a Census of religious opinions at\nall would have been wise.  But, to have proposed it\u2014to have stoutly\nmaintained the justice of it\u2014to have asserted the necessity of it for\nequitable legislation,\u2014and then, to have withdrawn it to satisfy an\nunreasoning handful of Dissenters, who make themselves heard in the House\nof Commons, is not to be characterized by any negative form of judgment.\nThis is not simply want of wisdom.  It is more like that moral imbecility\nwhich, in men whom GOD has burdened with a high trust, is really a crime.\n\nThe object of this tract remains.  And therefore, notwithstanding the\ncourse which the Government has taken, I send it forth to effect that\nobject, as opportunity shall be found.  I ask my countrymen and\ncountrywomen\u2014Christian men and women\u2014simply to consider, as in the\npresence of GOD, these two appalling facts, which the discussion of the\nCensus Bill has forced to the surface, in this day of _Crisis_ for the\nTruth.\n\n1.  That thousands of baptized souls in England are content to believe\nnothing in particular.\n\n2.  That thousands more who protest that they _do_ believe something in\nparticular, protest also that they cannot \u201cconfess\u201d that something\n\u201cbefore men.\u201d\n\n                                * * * * *\n\n         _Price_ 2_d._, _or_ 10_s._ _per_ 100 _for distribution_.\n\n                                * * * * *\n\n                                * * * * *\n\n           JOSEPH MASTERS AND CO., PRINTERS, ALDERSGATE STREET.\n\n\n\n\nFOOTNOTES.\n\n\n{5}  2 Kings xiii. 7.\n\n{6}  2 Kings xv. 19.\n\n{8}  Phil. i. 27, 28.\n\n{9a}  S. Matt. x. 32.\n\n{9b}  Ps. cxix. 46.\n\n{9c}  S. John i. 20.\n\n{10a}  Acts xxvi. 22.\n\n{10b}  2 Cor. iv. 13.\n\n{10c}  Phil. ii. 11.\n\n{11}  See _Daily News_ of May 11, 1860.\n\n{12}  Hosea vii. 9.\n\n{13}  1 Tim. iii. 15.\n\n{14}  Acts xv.\n\n{15}  Isa. xxiv. 13.\n\n{17a}  Amos ix. 9.\n\n{17b}  1 Cor. xi. 19.\n\n{18a}  Col. ii. 2.\n\n{18b}  Eph. iv. 14.\n\n{19}  Rev. xxi. 7.\n\n{20a}  Rev. xxi. 8.\n\n{20b}  1 S. John iv. 17, 18.\n\n{21}  S. Matt. x. 32\u201339.","title":"A Tract for the Times: The Church and the Census","tradition":"philosophy-ethics","translated_text":null,"word_count":4408}