Excerpt from The Voluntary System, Can It Supply the Place of the Established Church?: With Recent Facts and Statistics From America In stating the question therefore between the Church. And the Voluntary System as I have stated it, I have not done justice to the cause of the Church. The real question is not whether Voluntaryism could supply the place of the Church, but whe ther it could supply it so much better as to make it worth the while of the English people to make the exchange. While, therefore, it is enough for us to shew that the Establishment is equal to, or not greatly inferior to Voluntaryism, our adver saries are bound to shew that Voluntaryism is very decidedly and greatly superior to our Establishment. 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.