The church at this moment is much to be pitied. She has nothing left but possession. Ifa Bisop meets an intelligent gentleman,and reads fatal interrogations inhis eyes, he has no resource but to take wine with him. False positon introduces cant, perjury, simony, and ever a lower class of mind into the clergy; and when the heirarchy is afraid of science and education, afraid of piety, afraid of tradition, and afraid of theology, there is nothig left but to quit a church which is no longer one.
so where dwells the religion?
Tell me first where dwells electricity, or motion, or thought, or gesure.
They do not dwell or stayat all.
Electricity cannot be made fast, mortared up and ended, like London monument, or the Tower, so that you shall know where to find it, and keep it fixed, as the english do with their things, for evermore; it is passing, glancing, gesticular; it is a traveller, a newness, a surprise, a secret, which perplexes them, and puts them out.
Yet, if religion be the doing of all good, and for its sake the suffering of all evil, than that divine secret existed in the days of Alfred to those of Romilly, of Clarkson, and of Florence Nightingale, and in thousands who have no fame.
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