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The Lord's Prayer and the Church; Letters to the Clergy
The Lord's Prayer and the Church Letters to the Clergy Author:John Ruskin General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1880 Original Publisher: Strahan and Co. Subjects: Lord's prayer Art / Criticism Religion / Christianity / Anglican Religion / Biblical Studies / New Testament Religion / Prayerbooks / Christian Religion / Prayer Religion / Christianity / Denominations Notes: T... more »his is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations 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: LETTERS FROM CLERGY AND LAITY. The following letters have been entrusted to me for publication in this work. The writers of twenty-two of them are clergymen, of whom sixteen are members of three Clerical Societies, all of whom have read their letters before the Societies to which they belong, except in the case of one Society, where it was impracticable. The remaining six have been kind enough to write in acceptance of the invitation in the Contemporary Review for December, 1879. The other letters are from members of the laity, attracted by the same proposal. Many others have been received ; but it would not have been possible to include them all in a volumeof moderate size, some of them besides being of great length ; and I was therefore, with regret, obliged to decline them. It was not originally intended that the invitation to discuss these questions should be extended to laymen. But several so understood it from the preface in the Contemporary, and when I came to examine the letters sent on this understanding, I felt a conviction that a true and safe light would be thrown upon the subject by their assistance; and, using the discretionary power allowed me by Mr. Ruskin, I thought it, on the whole, best to give admission to a certain number of communications from laymen. Besides, as they themselves are, in great measure, the subjects of the disc...« less