Saturday, November 05, 2005

 

Liturgy

George Eliot, Adam Bede, chapter XVIII (Church):
And to Adam the church service was the best channel he could have found for his mingled regret, yearning, and resignation; its interchange of beseeching cries for help with outbursts of faith and praise -- its recurrent responses and the familiar rhythm of its collects, seemed to speak for him as no other form of worship could have done.



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