our increased exertions, to our more exemplary faithfulness, to our patient perseverance in well doing; if, with the prophet, it be our lot, humanly speaking, to labour in vain and spend our strength for nought, yet we shall have the prophet's consolation in the assurance, that our judgment is with the Lord, and our work with our God.25

25 Isaiah xlix. 4.

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"THE main support of piety and morals consists in the parochial labours of the clergy. If our country is to be preserved from utter profligateness and ruin, it must be by our means: and, take notice, we cannot lose our influence, but in a great measure by our own fault." Abp. Secker's Charges, p. 239.

"It is our conscientious belief, that an establishment is an indispensable safeguard against a desolating flood of irreligion; but only as far as that establishment is virtuously patronized. In other words, without the demolition of our existing machinery, but through its means, and provided that right and efficient men be appointed to work it, we hold that the country may still be saved. And, humanly speaking, its Christian instructors will be its only saviours. These reformers of our national morality will be the only reformers that will do us good. This is the great specific for the people's well-being; and, however derided by the liberalism of our age, or undervalued in the estimation of merely secular politics; still, it is with the Christianity of our towns and parishes that the country is to stand or fall.""It is by the efficacy of moral means, working a moral

transformation, and by that alone, that our deliverance will be effected; and little do the mere advocates of retrenchment, and colonization, and public works, and poor laws, and other merely political expedients for the melioration of the people-little do they know, how utterly powerless all these enterprises are, while the Christianity of the land is unprovided for, and its Christian institutions are left inoperative, from the want of zealous and energetic labourers to fill them." Chalmers on Political Economy, p. 436-438.

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Ir is scarcely less difficult to think favourably of the religious sincerity of those, who in the prosecution of a bellum internecinum against the church, can unite their forces, not only with those of the Arian and Socinian, whose principles they profess to hold in abhorrence, but with the infidel and the atheist, who hate the church more than they hate the dissenters, only because it is a more faithful and consistent witness and keeper of God's truth; and who, if they succeed in their designs against the establishment, will very soon turn their hand against their allies.

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On the other hand, the dissenters have absurdly exaggerated their own numbers and labours. The author of "The Case of the Dissenters," a pamphlet full of the most notorious falsehoods, has hazarded an assertion

that the dissenters outnumber the members of the established church. In the county of Essex, which has long been the stronghold of dissent in the eastern part of the kingdom, the proportion of dissenters to churchmen is not greater than one to five, including amongst the dissenters the Wesleyan Methodists, a majority of whom do not consider themselves to be absolutely separated from the church. In one large town-parish, the clergyman returned the number of dissenters at one-fourth of the whole population. But having shortly afterwards occasion to go from house to house, for the purpose of obtaining signatures to a petition in favour of the established church, he discovered that he had greatly over-rated the strength of dissent in his parish.

I believe that the calculation, made by a writer in the Standard newspaper from parliamentary returns, that the whole number of Protestant dissenters in the kingdom, including the Wesleyan Methodists, is not more than one-sixth of the whole Protestant population, is rather favourable, than otherwise, to the dissenters. Estimating the proportion not according to numbers, but according to property, and education, and contributions to charitable objects, one-tenth would probably be a large allowance for the dissenting interest. Exclusive of the Wesleyan Methodists, the dissenters probably do not amount to one-twelfth of the whole population. The number of congregations belonging to "the three denominations" in 1829, was stated in the Congregational Magazine to be 2,435. See "The Case of the Church of England" in Fraser's Magazine for February, 1834.

In the county of Durham, the amount of money, subscribed by churchmen to institutions for the good of the poor of all religious denominations, is to that contributed by dissenters, as twenty-eight to one; the number of