But let us see whether your _hypothesis_ does not assume rather too much. The Society is denominated _British_ and _Foreign_. In the constitution of its committee, it was but just to pay respect to both parts of its designation: nor does it appear extravagant to have assigned a sixth part of that committee to the members of those foreign churches, with which the Society sought a friendly co-operation, and with which, I understand, she _is_ actually co-operating to a very considerable extent. Now these foreigners cannot be identified with the Dissenters from the established church, without as much violence to speech as makes a _solecism_, and to the rights of hospitality, as constitutes a _calumny_. Neither these men have sinned, nor their parents, in the way which the Country Clergyman _supposes_: they brought their religion with them, as they did their language; and they might as truly be said to have dissented from a language which they never spake, as from a mode of religious worship which neither they nor their fathers ever professed. They are, it should be observed, for the most part members of sister churches, from which the Society for promoting Christian Knowledge has obtained some of its most laborious missionaries, and the established church of this country has derived, and must continue to derive, her nursing mothers. {44} On many grounds, these foreigners would feel the ties which bind them to the established church; and she may therefore fairly reckon upon their _neutrality_, if she may not promise herself their _support_.