Excerpt from The Bishops as Legislators: A Record of Votes and Speeches Delivered by the Bishops of the Established Church in the House of Lords During the Nineteenth Century Then if the nation still thinks well to have a House of Lords at all, and still cares to call to its aid the leaders of the Church, you may get a Church vote and voice which will not be so flagrantly in opposition to Church principles, so contrary to the very idea of the Church, as the Bishops' votes during the last century have been. 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.