PRINCIPLES AT STAKE.

ESSAYS ON

CHURCH QUESTIONS OF THE DAY.

EDITED BY

GEORGE HENRY SUMNER, M.A.,

RECTOR OF OLD ALRESFORD, HANTS,

AND CHAPLAIN TO THE LORD BISHOP OF WINCHESTER,

LONDON:

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.

1868.

The right of Translation is reserved.

LONDON: PRINTED BY W. CLOWES AND SONS, DUKE STREET, STAMFORD STREET,

AND CHARING CROSS.

BENJAMIN SHAW, M.A., late Fellow of Trinity College,
Cambridge.

II. THE INCREASE OF THE EPISCOPATE OF THE CHURCH
OF ENGLAND

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LORD ARTHUR HERVEY, M.A., Archdeacon of Sudbury and
Rector of Ickworth with Horringer.

III.-THE POWERS AND DUTIES OF THE PRIESTHOOD

R. PAYNE SMITH, D.D., Canon of Christ Church, and Regius
Professor of Divinity at Oxford.

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IV. NATIONAL EDUCATION

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ALEXANDER R. GRANT, M.A., Rector of Hitcham, Suffolk, late H.M. Inspector of Schools.

V. THE DOCTRINE OF THE EUCHARIST CONSIDERED IN
CONNECTION WITH STATEMENTS RECENTLY PUT
FORTH RESPECTING THAT HOLY SACRAMENT

THE EDITOR.

VI. SCRIPTURE AND RITUAL

T. D. BERNARD, M.A., Rector of Walcot and Canon of

Wells.

VII. THE CHURCH IN SOUTH AFRICA

ARTHUR MILLS, M.A., of Balliol College, Oxford.

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GEORGE SALMON, D.D., Regius Professor of Divinity in
the University of Dublin.

IX. THE REVISIONS OF THE LITURGY CONSIDERED IN
THEIR BEARING ON RITUALISM ..

W. G. HUMPHRY, B.D., Vicar of St. Martin-in-the-Fields,
London; late Fellow of Trinity College, Cam-
bridge.

X.-PARTIES AND PARTY SPIRIT

JOHN S. HOWSON, D.D., Dean of Chester.

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ΝΟΤΕ.

THE several contributors to this Volume are responsible only for the statements and opinions contained in their own Essays.

ESSAY I.

RITUALISM AND UNIFORMITY.

BY BENJAMIN SHAW, M.A.,

LATE FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.

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