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This proposal has been made from time to time, and is even said to be favored by the Bishop of Durham and a considerable body of Anglican clergymen and laymen. Essentially, however, it is the protest of the great body of British Dis-senters?Presbyterians, Methodists, Bap-tists???against the favored position of a Church to which they do not subscribe, but for whose upkeep they are taxed. If the proposal were to take effect, English Episcopalians would be obliged to support their own Church out of voluntary funds, and they would lose the prestige conferred by the presence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Antidisestablishmentarianism | 3/23/1931 | See Source »

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