George Borrow

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You may desire some explanation of why we in this Cathedral, have thoughtit right to take part with the city in the public commemoration of GeorgeBorrow. It is not, of course, merely because he was a devoted lover ofour ancient house, though for that we are not ungrateful. Nor again isit merely because he was for the most active years of his life a zealousservant of the Bible Society; and our Church has taken a special interestin that society since the day when Bishop Bathurst, first of hisepisc

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opal brethren, appeared upon its platforms side by side with JosephJohn Gurney. Nor again is it merely because he was an accomplished manof letters. Religion and literature indeed have much that is common intheir purpose. The Church exists to propagate a certain interpretationof the world and human life. Literature also exists to interpret life,and the great literatures of the world have never in theirinterpretations shown themselves antagonistic to religion; on thecontrary, they have always tended to discover more and more elements ofpermanent value in human life, confirming the Church's message of itsDivine origin and destiny. But, unhappily, there have always been, andare still, men of letters whom the Church cannot honour, because theirbooks, although technically meritorious, take a view of life which is inour judgment against good morals, or in some other way mischievous. If,then, we in this Mother Church claim our share in the commemoration ofGeorge Borrow, it is because he was, as we think, a true seer andinterpreter; because he opened to us fresh springs of delight in thenatural world; because he aroused new and living interest in the lives ofmen of many kindreds and tongues; and because he held up to our ownnation an ideal of conduct which could not but benefit those whom itattracted.

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