Excerpt from The Church: Or What Do Anglicans Mean by 'the Church'? It is not much good to talk about things unless we know what we are talking about and yet a great many people who have much to say about 'the Church, ' seem to have only the vaguest idea of what they themselves mean by the word. The object of this book is to urge upon all who believe in a Church to consider exactly what they understand by it; to get them to look into the question, and see whether they have any definition of a Church in their own minds, and what that definition is. If they would only do this, I cannot but think that controversies would easily be settled. 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.