Then and Now

● In 1832 the Parliamentary Reform Bill was passed in England and Dr. Thomas Arnold, clergyman and headmaster of Rugby, said: “The English Church as it now is no power can save.” In a book published in 1957—The New Ordeal of Christianity—Paul Hutchinson said: “The most striking fact about Protestant churches in England today—and in this I include the Anglican as well as the free churches—is the emptiness of most of them.”