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Excerpt from A Plea for Church Defence, or What Have the Dissenters to Offer as a Substitute for the Church Which They Seek to Destroy?: A Lecture Delivered in the Corn Exchange, Preston, February 10th, 1873
Mr. Chairman, ladies, and gentlemen, - I suppose it is not a very usual thing to find a Dissenting Minister on a Church of England platform, and that, too, for the purpose of lecturing in defence of the Church. Allow me, therefore, at the outset to offer a Word or two by way of explanation. 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.