Excerpt from A Country Parish Parsons: Ancient Parsons and Modern Incidents AT a recent convention of Christian workers representing churches in city and country, the request was made that those who were born and bred in rural districts rise. The members stood upon their feet almost to a man. It is evident, said the speaker, that unless the country church is revived, our church will die out in the next generation. 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.