Excerpt from A Letter to the Clergy of the Diocese of Exeter: On the Use of the Offertory, Especially With Reference to the Missionary Exertions of the Church, and to the State of Spiritual Destitution in the Manufacturing Districts of England In saying this, I am not ignorant that doubts have been entertained whether the Rubric, by. As signing to the churchwardens a right of joint deli beration with the minister in the distribution of the moneys given at the Offertory, do not indicate a limitation of the distribution to objects 'merely parochial. To this construction of the Rubric I by no means assent. The phrase, such pious and charitable uses as the minister and churchwardens shall think fit, does of itself give a latitude of discretion which may not, in my judgment, be narrowed by any thing short of express restriction, or the very plain est and most necessary implication. There is, too, another consideration which seems to me to be of the greatest weight. If the meaning of this Ru bric be indeed so confined, our Church has left us without any legitimate mode of obeying the apostle's precept, by distributing to the. Necessity of the Saints, beyond our own immediate (3e18. 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.