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ments of the tithe It is their obvions duty, by the benefice 

 which they hold, as well as by a Church which still has a future 

 before it, that they should maintain the income undiminished. 

 They may have a legal right to make reductions ; but they have 

 not, in my opinion, any moral right. When once they have 

 collected the tithe, their duty by the benefice is performed ; they 

 may do what they like by their own. Public policy condemns 

 reductions of the tithe ; it has nothing to say to the most 

 unbounded exercise of private charity. Whatever is to be done 

 for the adjustment of the tithe question should be done by an 

 Act of Parliament, generally, and once for all. 



