Excerpt from A Pastoral Letter to the Clergy of the Diocese of RiponIT has not been without much anxious reection, nor without a deep sense of the solemn responsibility which I should incur in so doing, that I have made up my mind to address you under the present troubled circumstances of our Church: but having received Memorials from different parts of my diocese, including one signed by twelve of my rural deans, on the subject of the recent decision in the case of Gorham v. The Bishop of Exeter, and having also had the most pressing appeals from clergy as well as laity within it to resolve, if pos sible, the painful doubts, and remove the distressing perplexities, under which so many are labouring in consequence of it, I have deemed it advisable, in stead of replying separately to each communication, to address this Pastoral Letter 1 to you all.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.

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