88, and see "Letters and Memoirs
of William Bright," pp. 267 _seq_.

[6] i.e. the English, as distinct from the British Church.

[7] "The word Establishment," writes Bishop Stubbs, "means, of course,
the national recognition of our Church as a Christian Church, as the
representment of the religious life of the nation as historically
worked out and by means of property and discipline enabled to
discharge, so far as outward discharge can insure it, the effectual
performance of the duties that membership of a Christian Church
involves. It means the national recognition of a system by which every
inch of land in England, and every living soul in the population is
assigned to a ministration of help, teaching, advice, and comfort of
religion, a system in which every English man woman and child has a
right to the service of a clergyman and to a home of spiritual life in
the service of the Church" ("Visitation Charges," p. 303).

[8] A State can, of course, _endow_, as well as establish, any form of
religion it selects. It has a perfect right to do so. But the State
has never endowed the Church of England, and it can only disendow it in
the sense that it can rob it of its own endowments--just as it can, by
Act of Parliament, rob any business man of his money. It has done this
once already. At the Great Rebellion, the Church of England was, in
this sense, disestablished and disendowed. By the Act of Uniformity of
Charles II, it was reinstated into the rights and liberties from which
it had been deposed. But it remained the same Church which Augustine
established in England all the time. Its reinstatement no more made
the Church a new Church, than the restoration of Charles II made the
monarchy a new monarchy.

[9] It is sometimes asked, Does not the presence of the Bishops in the
House of Lords constitute an Established Church? No. Representatives
from all the sects might, and some probably will, sit there without
either making their sect the established Church of the country, or
unmaking the Catholic Church the Church of the country. Bishops have
sat in the House of Lords ever since there has been a House of Lords to
sit in, but neither their exclusion, nor the inclusion of non-Bishops,
would disestablish the Church of England.

It is also asked, do not the Prime Ministers make the Bishops? Prime
Ministers, as we shall see, do not _make_ but _nominate_ the Bishops.

[10] Augustine is worried, as we are worried