Excerpt from The Church and Its Apostolic Ministry: A Course of Lectures Delivered in St. Mark's Church, Denver, in January, 1887 Rt. Rev. And dear sir In View Of the general interest now being manifested in the questions Of Christian Unity and the Nature of the Ministry Of the Church, and in order that the Clergy and Laity may receive needed systematic instruction, we respectfully ask you, as the Bishop of the Diocese, to deliver a Course of Lectures on the Authority Of the Church and her Apostolic Ministry, at such time and place as you may choose. 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.