Excerpt from Studies, Literary and Social<br><br>But what shall we think of such disregard among Christian peoples, among a people who were not only Christian, but who had taken upon themselves to reform the whole Christian Church with allega tions that it had dishonored its Founder; among a people who had been unmolested in' their work of reformation for one hundred and fifty years, in the last twenty of which those who had been most pro nounced in their denunciations of Christian con duct of every kind, in high places, had slain a wicked king and in the coinmonwealth built upon his rum made laws for the suppression of every species of Iniqulty, and then, as if fatigued with their own work and responsibilities, called back the exiled son of their deceased ruler with invocations of the blessings, of God?<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.