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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE IDEAL OF A TRUE BISHOP. A bishop must be blameless as the steward of God.?Titus i. 7. You are to-day invited to contribute to the fund for providing a bishopric at Wakefield, for which only a few thousand pounds more are required. I can easily suppose that to some here the object may seem a small and a secondary one. It does not interest them; they look at it as a purely ecclesiastical arrangement; they will say: A collection at Westminster Abbey in the afternoon is rare and exceptional; why should you waste one on such a matter as this ? What have we to do with bishoprics or with Wakefield ? I answer that in Westminster Abbey, if anywhere, each Englishman should consider only what is for the good of all. But some will say: What is the use of bishops at all ? What concern is it of ours if one man more is to live in a palace or to be called ' my lord' ? Others, again, will say: It is a time of unusual depression, even of deep distress; why at such a time should we contribute to bishoprics? Now, it is always best to conceal no objections, to deal with the question full in the face, to take, if I may use the common expression, the bull by the horns; and I shall try to do so. You ask why, in a time of distress, you should be invited to help in the founding of a new see. I answer, first, that nothing could be worse or more discreditable to this nation than that every good work, even if it be secondary, should be paralysed by the excuse, which to many even here present is merely an excuse, of national distress. The poor we shall always have with us?so said our Lord Himself; and yet, when the grateful Mary used to anoint His weary feet with alabastron, a spikenard very precious, which might have been sold for two hundred pence, and given to the poor, it was ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217869805 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217869807 |
| Weight | 0.47 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.32 In |
| List Price | $9.15 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 136 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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