[Painted Windows by Harold Begbie]@TWC D-Link bookPainted Windows CHAPTER IV 1/21
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L.P.
JACKS _As an excellent amateur huntsman once said to me, "If you must cast, lead the hounds into the belief that they are doing it themselves_."-- JOHN ANDREW DOYLE. One of the great ladies of Oxford was telling me the other day that she remembers a time when friends of hers refused, even with averted eyes and a bottle of smelling salts at the nose, to go down the road where Mansfield College had presumed to raise its red walls of Nonconformity. To-day Manchester College, the seat of Unitarianism, stands on this same dissenting road, and thither the ladies of Oxford go up in great numbers to listen to the beautiful music which distinguishes the chapel service, the chapel itself already beautiful enough with windows by Burne-Jones. On the altar-cloth of this chapel are embroidered the words, GOD IS LOVE.
No tables of stone flank that gentle altar, and no panelled creeds on the walls challenge the visitor to define his definitions.
The atmosphere of the place is worship.
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