Addressing the ministers of his diocese in 1831 Bishop John Kaye of Lincoln spoke frankly.

Addressing the ministers of his diocese in 1831 Bishop John Kaye of Lincoln spoke frankly. "We cannot be surprised at being told," he said, "as we oftentimes are, that the days [of the established church] are already numbered, and that it is destined to sink...before the irresistible force of public opinion." (1) A similar warning appeared a not many years earlier when, in his provocative little main division Church Reform, Edward Berens urg the meeting-house to acknowledge public opinion before it thrown away the public altogether. (2)

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