Excerpt from Congregationalism: Or, the Polity of Independent Church, Viewed in Relation to the State and Tendencies of Modern Society The present publication is divided into two books. The first book consists of an Address, delivered before the Autumnal Meeting of the Congregational Union of England and Wales, convened at Nottingham, in October last. Some change has been made in a few forms of expression, for the purpose of securing to the different parts of the subject the advantage of appear ing as the topics of distinct Chapters. In other respects, the matter of the first book is printed almost verbatim as it was delivered. 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.