Untitled - Rore Sanctifica

The Difficulties of Re-union. 99
the fact of their presence. That all this has
been changed need hardly be explained here."
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Changed, indeed, it has been ;
longer
men do indeed no
come to Cathedral or Church for the
honour of GOD, but only and merely for some
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good to be got for themselves ; not knowing
that the honouring of GOD by the testifying
of their faith is their highest C? CU good. Changed
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indeed it all has been from those times, when
Bishops and Deans subject, albeit, to the Pope
-led multitudes to crowd our Cathedrals for
this end and object. Changed, indeed, it all
has been ; and on us it has fallen to re-change
that change. Hard and wearisome will be the
task to raise the moral status of those who
have not even in their notions of a material
Church got beyond what Pugin used to call
the
"
shop
front idea." Harder and more
wearisome still, when we consider the spiritual
state of those, among whom such ideas as these
pass current and ; they are
probably the
great
majority of the upper and middle classes of
England; for nothing can be more evident
than that they have yet to learn the
very first
principles of Divine worship, they have yet
to learn what is the service due from the
creature to the Creator; what is meant by
adoration. One is at a loss to imagine what
can be their conceptions of the worship of
Heaveii. Do they think that the unending cry
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