A Sermon Preached in St Jamess Church Bury St Edmunds On Tuesday the 10th
A Sermon Preached in St Jamess Church Bury St Edmunds On Tuesday the 10th
John William Donaldson
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It is sim])ly this. 'I\) what extent can wi- safely carry the outward representation of our religious feelings? What is the true limit between a cold and di;i(l riliial, wliicli dissatisfies, if it does not disgust, the man of taste aiid education ; and the excess of synd)olical observances, which lead us im|)en'cptil)ly into idolatry — into a substitinion (»l the sign for tlic thing signified ? Now, ii is clear iliai tiiis must be a standard of mcasuiemenl which 13 varies with the age and coun...try. Ecclesiastical architec- ture, sacerdotal vestments, and church music, are the ad- juncts, not the constituents, of our faith ; and an attempt to revive what is obsolete may be as absurd, unnecessary, and perhaps mischievous, as it may be, on the other hand, offensive and prejudicial to discontinue that which is harm- less in itself, and connected with the cherished associations of sincere and guileless worshippers. The Church of Eng- land has always aimed at the true mean in these matters — neither abolishing, nor retaining, nor reviving, without some reason which the spirit of the age, and the feelings of the congregation, have pronounced to be valid.
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