The

Rights and Responsibilities

of

National Churches

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Rights and Responsibilities

of

National Churches

by

J. HOWARD B. MASTERMAN, M.A.
Professor of History in the University of Birmingham
Vicar of S. Michael's, Coventry
Examining Chaplain to the Bishop of Manchester

CAMBRIDGE:

at the University Press
1908

To SIR OLIVER LODGE, D.Sc., F.R.S.

PRINCIPAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM.

I have not asked your leave to associate this book with your name, for by doing so I might seem to be claiming your support for the views therein propounded; yet I am glad of the opportunity of recording my strong conviction that for you, and many who like you are on quest for that assured conviction of truth that can be restored to our perplexed age only through the travail of human souls, our Church has a home and a welcome-a welcome that loyalty to our Lord gives us the right to offer, and that loyalty to truth does not forbid you to accept.