Excerpt from The Bishop of Peterborough at Kettering, May 20-22, 1882: I. Address to Church Workers at S. Andrew's Church, on Saturday Evening, May 20; II. Sermon Preached in the Parish Church on the Evening of Sunday, May 21; III. Address to the Confirmation Candidates on Monday, May 22 There had been two sad mistakes all along the history of the Church. One was that of the laity thinking that Christ's work in a parish was to be done by the clergy alone, and that the laity had nothing to do but to go to church, and perhaps subscribe something to the collection. That was the old notion of the laity 1n years that were happily passed by, he trusted never to come back. The laity were beginning to understand that they had their work to do; and, what was more, that it was commissioned and appointed work, and that it was just as true that the laity had a mission and commission as that the clergy had a mission and commission from Christ. Another mistake was that sometimes when the laity woke up to the thought they had their work. 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.