Note 81 — A YEAR OF PREACHING.

"Toplady, in one of his sermons, says, 'I believe no denomination of professing Christians (the Church of Rome excepted) were so generally void of the light and life of godliness, so generally destitute of the doctrine and the grace of the Gospel, as was the Church of England, considered as a body, about fifty years ago. At that period, a converted minister in the Establishment was as great a wonder as a comet.'"—Southey's Commonplace Book.