A Second Letter to the Most Rev. Archbishop Manning, Etc,, Etc (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from A Second Letter to the Most Rev. Archbishop Manning, Etc, , EtcYour Grace is beholden to one, and perhaps to many, superiors in that system. Accordingly, whatever injunctions are laid upon you by a higher authority than your own, you can have no alter native but to comply with and execute.The circumstances, brie¿y, which led to the publication of my pamphlet, The Church's Creed or the Crown's Creed? Were these On November 20, 1867, I sought an interview with your Grace, as my bishop, on the subject of some grave difficulties, as they appeared to me, by which I had been confronted in my enquiries into the history of the schism between the Latin and Greek Churches, forming the subject of the second part of my book called Christendom's Divisions, which had then been published six months. Your Grace listened to all that I had to say with apparent gravity, telling me that you had not as yet read my book on account of some unfavourable criticisms that it had elicited, lest it should ever come before you judicially, but ended by promising that if I would set down my difficulties on paper they should be referred to persons of acknowledged learning and impartiality for consideration.My paper, accompanied by two others which had appeared in print a short time before with my name affixed to them, was forwarded to your Grace the day after Christmas, and it ended thus.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.