The Cathedral and the House
IME was when men would build their city around the massive pile of the cathedral or the parish church, in such wise that the House of God towered high above all the town and all the countryside, and the houses of men, clustered around, seemed by their relative lowliness to be paying reverence to its dignity and sanctity. Thereby, consciously or unconsciously, our forefathers expressed in symbolic fashion the place which worship and the service of God must occupy in every ordered life, as the force which should dominate, pervade, elevate, sanctify all the manifold activities of men. Our modern civilisation prefers to rear its cities around the factory chimney; and perhaps this too is a symbol, a sign of the changed view of life in which God and His supreme claims find little place-The Rey. W. TT, CG, Sheppard, Liverpool,
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Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 26, 11 January 1929, Page 23
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146The Cathedral and the House Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 26, 11 January 1929, Page 23
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