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Letters to the Clergy on the Lord's Prayer and the Church (v. 1)
Letters to the Clergy on the Lord's Prayer and the Church - v. 1 Author:John Ruskin Volume: v. 1 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1896 Original Publisher: Dodd Mead Subjects: Lord's prayer Art / Criticism Literary Collections / Letters Religion / Christianity / Anglican Religion / Prayerbooks / Christian Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illus... more »trations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: ESSAYS AND COMMENTS ON THE FOREGOING LETTERS BY THE EDITOR ESSAYS AND COMMENTS FEELING deeply, and anxiously, the greatness of the responsibility laid upon me to act, as it were, the part of an envoy between so eminent a teacher as Mr. Ruskin and my brethren in the Ministry, I have thought that it might not be taken amiss if I prefaced my account of the origin of the series of letters placed in my hands for publication (see Letter 8th July, 1879) with just a mere allusion to one written to me four years ago. One or two imperfect conversations, leading up to the subject of the Resurrection, which had been broken off by accidental circumstances, together with the letter alluded to, had stimulated in me a feeling of something more than curiosity -- rather one of anxious interest -- to learn more of Mr. Ruskin's views No. IV. upon matters which are at the present day giving rise to a good deal of agitated discussion among intellectual men. I am thankful to be able to avow that, for my own part, I am a firm and conscientious, not a thoughtless and passive, believer in the doctrines of the Church of Christ as held by the majority of serious-minded religious men in the Established Church. Mr. Ruskin was mistaken in his much too ready assumption that I (simply because I am a clergyman) am a believer on compulsion ; that for the peace of my soul I have only to thank religious anaesthetics, and that I ever preach agai...« less