THE CLERGY AND THE WORLD.
The question, savs the KoyUsli Churchman, as to how‘far the clergy ought to mix themselves up with the world, and m particular with civic institutions,ftncl and tilings relating to commercial business, lias been receiving the attention <<l the Bishop of Winchester. His Lordship, at a meeting the other day at the London Tavern, made some observations on the subject to this effect“lf religion is to consist in mere barren obcrvances—in certain formularies ol speech —if it is to consist in theie being a set of people set apart to do religious duties and to let the world continue lrieligious—l say, in that case, religion is nothing more than an arrant hyjiocnsy and a patent humbug. If religion is anything, it is to go with you into youi counting-houses —it is to go with our Cabinet Ministers into all the details ot council—it is to go into the great council of the nation, and to impregnate all those lower and earthly matters with higher principles than the world without can give.”
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Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 113, 19 February 1872, Page 3
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175THE CLERGY AND THE WORLD. Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 113, 19 February 1872, Page 3
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