CHURCH QUESTIONS: No. 2. WHO PAYS THE TITHE? BY W. R. BOWDITCH, M.A., INCUMBENT OF ST. ANDREW's, WAKEFIELD. BIBLI LONDON: E. & F. N. SPON, 48, CHARING CROSS. 1868. Price Sixpence. ΤΟ THE RIGHT HON. B. DISRAELI, ESQ., M.P., First Lord of Her Majesty's Treasury, &c. &c. &c. SIR, I have ventured to present this Paper to you, not merely as Prime Minister of this great empire, nor even as one who, having filled the office of Chancellor of the Exchequer, must be familiar with the financial economy of land and with the scientific principles of that economy, but as the leading statesman upon whom these times have devolved the duty of upholding the constitution in Church and State against the most revolutionary proposals which could be made in the House of Commons. Our annals do not furnish an instance of policy so unstatesmanlike and unpatriotic as that which has been inaugurated during the present session of Parliament, and which you have manfully and patriotically resisted; nor am I acquainted with a parallel to the systematic use of misrepresentation and falsehood by which that policy has been recommended to our fellow-countrymen. My humble attempt to expose a portion of the disgraceful system which Liberationists have long been and are now employing to mislead Englishmen, is designed to aid in the great work which has devolved upon you; and I trust it will have the ΤΟ THE RIGHT HON. B. DISRAELI, ESQ., M.P., First Lord of Her Majesty's Treasury, &c. &c. &c. SIR, I have ventured to present this Paper to you, not merely as Prime Minister of this great empire, nor even as one who, having filled the office of Chancellor of the Exchequer, must be familiar with the financial economy of land and with the scientific principles of that economy, but as the leading statesman upon whom these times have devolved the duty of upholding the constitution in Church and State against the most revolutionary proposals which could be made in the House of Commons. Our annals do not furnish an instance of policy so unstatesmanlike and unpatriotic as that which has been inaugurated during the present session of Parliament, and which you have manfully and patriotically resisted 1; nor am I acquainted with a parallel to the systematic use of misrepresentation and falsehood by which that policy has been recommended to our fellow-countrymen. My humble attempt to expose a portion of the disgraceful system which Liberationists have long been and are now employing to mislead Englishmen, is designed to aid in the great work which has devolved upon you; and I trust it will have the |