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Excerpt from The History of the Church Missionary Society, Vol. 3 of 3: Its Environment, Its Men and Its Work Part VIII. Body; (2) the absolute failure of the most impressive Episcopal 1873 - 82 Declarations to secure the obedience of the Catholic party Chap' 69' for no one will pretend that sacramental confession is less practised now than it was then. To revert to the Ritual controversy proper. In 1874, Archbishop Tait, representing the whole Episcopate - a fact often forgotten, Public, introduced into Parliament the Public Worship Regulation Bill. It was this Bill that drew Mr. Gladstone out of the retirement Bil into which he had gone after his defeat at the general election earlier in the year. He vehemently opposed the Bill in the House of Commons; while Mr. Disraeli, separating himself from Lord Salisbury and other members of the Government, welcomed it as a measure to put down Ritualism. Ultimately, though with important amendments, it passed by immense majorities. It did not directly touch any of the disputed questions it simply provided an easier procedure for their settlement. In short, it may be described as having created Lord Penzance. Although several High Church bishops and lay peers had supported this creation, there was from the first a determined onslaught upon the plan on the part of the Catholic party. Week after week the Church Times thundered against the Act, and all Tait's hopes of a reasonable settlement through its means came to nought. The Bishops, in March, 1875, issued another joint Pastoral, calling upon the clergy to obey the law. It was signed by all except Bishop Moberly on one side and Bishop Baring on the other, the former thinking it too strong and the latter characterizing it as weak milk and water; but it effected nothing. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.