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Painted Windows

CHAPTER I
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That is a danger to be watched and guarded against.

But the Movement will continue, and it will not reach its fulfilment until under its pressure the Church has arrived at unity and formulated a policy intelligent and coherent.
So this great spirit, who might have given to mankind a book worthy to stand beside the _Imitation_, and given to England a new enthusiasm for the moral principles of Christianity, nurses a mechanistic dream and cherishes the hope that his Party is the Aaron's rod of all the Churches.

Many would have followed him if he had been content to say only, "Do as I do," but he descended into the dust of controversy, and bade us think as he thinks.

Nevertheless, in spite of this fatal mistake he remains the greatest spiritual force among the Churches of England, and his books of devotion will be read long after his works of controversy have fallen into that coldest of all oblivions, the oblivion of inadequate theologies.
DEAN INGE INGE, Very Rev.WILLIAM RALPH, D.D., C.V.O., 1918; Dean of St.Paul's since 1911; b.

Crayke, Yorkshire, 6th June, 1860; s.


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