The Charter of the Church : Six Lectures On the Spiritual Principle of Nonconformity
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But the public, the democracy, has imagination — more than it knows, or we allow for. A bald church, like so many of ours (take the prayers alone), will not greatly appeal to it, nor even will a church merely sympathetic. It is not to be had with mere cakes and ale. It should be re- mem.bered that the democracy does not consist of a single class, even though that class may be in a majority. For the future we must not lose sight of the fact that there is a The Charter of tlie Church. 47 rapidly ...growing section of opinion shaped under influences represented, for example, by the various forms of University extension. To this element we shall have to appeal in a way that at present we do not. It is an element which by its education is only made conscious of forces which are at work widely, if vaguely, in the public mind. And it is an element that does not gravitate to us. What have we to act on the great public, on the spiritual imagination, as the great systems do, as the ancient Church does, as the venerable ritual does, as, in a sense, even the House of Lords does ?
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