SIR BO BERT PEEL ON THE CHURCH.
Sir K. Peel, Bart, M.P. for Tamworth, in addressing a meeting of electors at Wolnecote, in that town, said that wben he looked at the building, supported at it was mainly by the poor inhabitants, and then at the lordly pile called the Established Church, he could not help being pressed with a feeling akin to dig'
3 satisfaction, to use the mildest term. He. saw the Church endowed, with all t the wealth and luxury which p:\st ages i had given it with her mitred Archbishops > and Bishops, aud well salaried rectors, 5 and with a revenue of something like four or five millions a year, and yet that • Church did not number one-half of the • people in this country. When he saw s the great bodies of Methodists, Baptists, and Independents, who had no aid from • ( the -State, and contrasted them with this s Church of millions, he owned that lie felt that the new Parliament could not deal with the Church question in. connection with Ireland alone, but that it : must be prepared to treat the question as regarded this country in a liberal spirit. (Applause.)
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Southland Times, Issue 1116, 1 March 1869, Page 3
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196SIR BOBERT PEEL ON THE CHURCH. Southland Times, Issue 1116, 1 March 1869, Page 3
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