WHAT DOES THE CHURCH FOR THE

PEOPLE?

A SERMON

PREACHED AT THE VISITATION

OF THE

RIGHT REVEREND JOHN BIRD, LORD BISHOP OF CHESTER,

IN THE

PARISH CHURCH OF BLACKBURN,

ON TUESDAY, JULY VII. MDCCCXXXV,

BY

SAMUEL JAMES ALLEN, M. A.

PERPETUAL CURATE OF SALESBURY,

AND CHAPLAIN TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE LORD DE TABLEY.

“O that every parish had an endowment fit for a learned, laborious, and worthy pastor,
and pastors worthy of such endowments,—that in every place we might see piety the elm
to every other vine, the supporter to every other profession,-learning adorned with piety,
and law administered with piety, and counsels managed with piety, and trade regulated with
piety, and the plough followed with piety. This would be the sui est magazine to secure the
happiness of a kingdom.”-REYNuLDS.

LONDON:

J. G. & F. RIVINGTON, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH YARD, AND WATERLOO PLACE;

WOOD, BLACKBURN; AND CLARKE, PRESTON.

MDCCCXXXV.

PRICE THREE-PENCE.

681

TO

THE RIGHT REVEREND

JOHN BIRD, LORD BISHOP OF CHESTER,

AND TO

THE REVEREND THE CLERGY

ATTENDING THE VISITATION AT BLACKBURN,

THIS DISCOURSE,

PUBLISHED AT THEIR REQUEST,

IS MOST RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED

BY

THEIR FAITHFUL SERVANT,

SAMUEL JAMES ALLEN.