. London . ttT^ . k-^a^. . Ss>*» T-<N V I ST. dunstans in the west every Sunday ; but the latter functions are not much regardedby his people. Their clergyman was a divine ; he was there-fore a scholar. Therein lies the whole difference. We haveno divines now, and very few scholars among the parish clergy,or even among the Bishops. Here and there one or twodivines arc found upon the Episcopal bench, and one or twoat Oxford and Cambridge; in the parish churches, do not ask for divines, or even for preachers ; we wantorganisers, administrators, athletes, and singers. And the GEORGE
. London . ttT^ . k-^a^. . Ss>*» T-<N V I ST. dunstans in the west every Sunday ; but the latter functions are not much regardedby his people. Their clergyman was a divine ; he was there-fore a scholar. Therein lies the whole difference. We haveno divines now, and very few scholars among the parish clergy,or even among the Bishops. Here and there one or twodivines arc found upon the Episcopal bench, and one or twoat Oxford and Cambridge; in the parish churches, do not ask for divines, or even for preachers ; we wantorganisers, administrators, athletes, and singers. And the GEORGE THE SECOXD 349 only reason for calling the time of George the Second a deadtime for the Church seems to be that its clergy were not likeou£ own. Let us walk abroad and view the streets. They arechanged, indeed, since Stow led us from St. Andrews Under-shaft to St. Pauls. The old gabled houses are all goneexcept in the narrow limits of that part spared by the fire ;in their places are tall houses with l
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