Excerpt from Church Reform: A Charge to the Clergy and Churchwardens of the Archdeaconry, Delivered by Edwin Palmer, D. D., Archdeacon of Oxford, at His Visitation in April and May, 1886
Last year I spoke to you about Disestablish ment, because there were many signs at that time that the question was likely to engage public attention, and in particular the Liberation Society had avowed its desire to make it a test question at the elections which were then approaching. It was not, however, generally accepted as a test question, and the new Parliament has shewn no disposition to deal with it. We shall hear of it again no doubt. But I do not mean to return to it now, though it may be right for me to say that I have not changed my Opinion. I remain con vinced that no cause, except the cause of Secu larism, has reason to expect solid and permanent advantage from the Disestablishment of the Church of England.
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