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Excerpt from Substance of an Address Delivered by Hon. Charles L. Wood, at the Ordinary Meeting of the English Church Union: Held at Freemasons' Tavern, on February 27, 1877 Mr. Keble sums up the whole matter when he says, That a judicial sentence, contrary to a prevailing interpretation, though its force be short of legislation, cannot be denied to be a practical change in the law an assertion which is endorsed by Mr. Gladstone, in his celebrated letter to the Bishop of London, in the following words, That the licence of construction claimed by the Privy Council, although disclaiming in words the decision of doctrine, in effect leaves the whole range of Church doctrine and practice at the mercy of the Court. 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.