Excerpt from The Church Under Queen Elizabeth, Vol. 1: An Historical Sketch Coming nearer home, he said that England had lost the perfection of the unity of Faith and the unity of the Church; but though not a Catholic people it was Christian still. Taken in its millions it was a baptized people. Through the neglect and sin of fathers and mothers, multitudes grew up without baptism; but the English people still believed in Revelation, in the coming of Jesus Christ into the World as the Saviour of men, and in the inspiration of the Holy Scrip tures as the Word of God. - H. E. Cardinal Manning, Archbishop of Westminster. 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.