It is true that everybody in the country is free to protest against the creed and practices of the Establishment, but why should anyone have to protest at all? The Nonconformist may enforce his own views of truth and religious duty, but why should the State, which is invested with authority derived from him, in common with his fellow-citizens, not only compel him to become a Nonconformist, but put a heavy premium on the acceptance of that which he feels it to be his duty to denounce? This is a question, the force of which increases in proportion as the Established clergy assert their right to set at defiance authorized doctrinal standards and rubrics, as well as to disregard the most solemn judicial decisions; for the points of theological antagonism between their teaching and the views of Nonconformists will multiply as confusion grows within the Church. But we are content to enforce our present point by an illustration drawn from a state of things with which we have long been familiar, rather than from any new development of clerical extravagance. Here, for instance, are specimens of the teaching of one of the authorized instructors of the people, taken from a twopenny catechism, entitled _Some questions of the Church Catechism, and doctrines involved, briefly explained, for the use of families and parochial schools_; by the Rev. J. A. Gace, M.A., Vicar of Great Barling, Essex,[42] and which, we understand, is circulated widely in many parishes far distant from the author's. '85. _Q._ We have amongst us various Sects and Denominations who go by the general name of Dissenters. In what light are we to consider them? _A._ As heretics; and in our Litany we expressly pray to be delivered from the sins of "false doctrine, heresy, and schism." '86. _Q._ Is then their worship a laudable service? _A._ No; because they worship God according to their own evil and corrupt imaginations, and not according to His revealed will, and therefore their worship is idolatrous. '87. _Q._ Is Dissent a great sin? _A._ Yes; it is in direct opposition to our duty towards God. '94. _Q._ But why have not Dissenters been excommunicated? _A._ Because the law of the land does not allow the wholesome law of the Church to be acted upon; but Dissenters have virtually excommunicated themselves by setting up a religion of their own, and leaving the ark of God's Church.