A Lecture DELIVERED AT THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE BRIGHTON BRANCH OF THE ENGLISH CHURCH UNION, NOV. 27, 1867, (F. BARCHARD, ESQ. IN THE CHAIR,) BY THE REV. M. W. MAYOW, M. A. INCUMBENT OF ST. MARY’S, WEST BROMPTON, AND LATE STUDENT OF CHRIST CHURCH, OXFORD. CHURCH PRESS COMPANY (LIMITED), 13, BURLEIGH STREET, STRAND, LONDON, AND G. WAKELING, ROYAL LIBRARY, BRIGHTON. 1868. It is right to state that the Brighton Branch of the English Church Union kindly requested leave to publish the following Lect

The Executive of the Brighton Branch of the English Church Union, through you, sir, their Chairman, have, too rashly, I fear, as well as too kindly, supposed that I might have something to say upon the above subject which may repay this assemblage of Churchmen for their trouble in coming here this evening.  It is certainly not for me to say you have deluded them, but rather, without wasting time in apology, to do my best to save (if it may be so) your credit and my own; and, what is of more cons