Salutary Obscurity in Religion and Literature
THE Christian Year is rich in sensations. Its great festivals touch chords in hearts that are otherwise dumb to the music of religion; sentiment or association keeps the strings tense through all the loosenings of time. And there are other days, some not marked in the calendar to any special honour,...
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| Veröffentlicht in: | The Academy, 1914 1914, 1913-01 (2123), p.51-52 |
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| Zusammenfassung: | THE Christian Year is rich in sensations. Its great festivals touch chords in hearts that are otherwise dumb to the music of religion; sentiment or association keeps the strings tense through all the loosenings of time. And there are other days, some not marked in the calendar to any special honour, that have their "sursum corda" for scores of individual Christians, A hymn, a collect, a passage in the Bible, an anthem-any of them may contain for some particular soul the whole heart of religion. |
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| ISSN: | 0269-3321 |