Excerpt from The Church: Or What Do Anglicans Mean by the Church? IN this Edition I have made considerable alterations in the arrangement of the book. I have placed at the beginning the chapters on the Nature of the Church. In these chapters I consider, first, what a Church must be, if it is to be anything worth discussion; and then, what must be its characteristics and constitution if it is to carry out the purposes for which it was established. These subjects are discussed in three chapters which consider What is a Church? The Church as Christ's Witness on Earth, and The Church as the appointed Teacher and Guide of Men. These questions appear to me to be the very centre of all religious controversy, and I think they are often overlooked, whilst other subjects, really less important, are put more prominently forward. 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.