THE CONNEXION OF THE GOVERNMENT SCHEME OF EDUCATION WITH THE INTERESTS OF THE ESTABLISHED CHURCH, CONSIDERED IN A CHARG E, DELIVERED TO THE CLERGY OF THE ARCHDEACONRY OF LONDON, MAY 20, 1847. BY WILLIAM HALE HALE, M.A. ARCH DEACON OF LONDON. LONDON: FRANCIS & JOHN RIVINGTON, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH YARD, AND WATERLOO PLACE. Α CHARGE, &c. REVEREND BRETHREN, In a diocese which affords such easy means of daily and uninterrupted intercourse between the Bishop and his Clergy, and all the subordinate officers of the Church, and under a Diocesan, who fulfils the duties, which belong exclusively to the episcopal order, so actively, that every part of his diocese, and the condition of every parish in it, is constantly within his view,—the duties of the Archdeacon are so limited to temporal matters, that the exercise of his jurisdiction over the Clergy is practically only a form. It would, however, be unwise and imprudent to discontinue this annual recognition of the authority of the Archdeacon: so long as the forms of visitation |