text:  What a noble fund here existed formed and set apart by the piety and charity of former ages for the service of the altar and of the poor--two causes which God hath joined and no man should put asunder! What incalculable good would it have done if it had been preserved sacred for its proper destination--sacred from the corruptions mummery and despotism of the Romish church but preserved inviolate for the support of religion the relief of suffering the spread of education! What is it which blights and paralyses all the efforts now made whether by individuals voluntary associations or the state for the attainment of those truly godlike objects? Is it not ever one thing--the practical impossibility of finding the requisite funds to support the institutions necessary to grapple with the evils on a scale at all commensurate to their magnitude? The Established Church could not spread for want of funds to erect and endow churches; meanwhile the population in the manufacturing districts and great towns was rapidly increasing and in consequence part of the people took refuge in the divisions of dissent part in the oblivion of practical heathenism