Transcriber's Note

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The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, Issue 4

Published December 1879.

CONTENTS.

DECEMBER, 1879.

	PAGE
The Lord's Prayer and the Church: Letters Addressed to the Clergy. By John Ruskin, D.C.L.	539
India under Lord Lytton. By Lieut.-Colonel R. D. Osborn	553
On the Utility to Flowers of their Beauty. By the Hon. Justice	574
Where are we in Art? By Lady Verney	588
Life in Constantinople Fifty Years Ago. By an Eastern Statesman	601
Miracles, Prayer, and Law. By J. Boyd Kinnear	617
What is Rent? By Professor Bonamy Price	630
Buddhism and Jainism. By Professor Monier Williams	644
Lord Beaconsfield:—	665
I. Why we Follow Him. By a Tory.	665
II. Why we Disbelieve in Him. By a Whig.	681
Contemporary Life and Thought in France. By Gabriel Monod	697

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THE LORD'S PRAYER AND THE CHURCH.

LETTERS ADDRESSED BY JOHN RUSKIN, D.C.L.,

TO THE CLERGY.

THE following letters, which are still receiving the careful considerationof many of my brother clergy, are, at the suggestion of theEditor, now printed in the Contemporary Review, with the objectof eliciting a further and wider expression of opinion. In addition tothe subjoined brief Introductory Address, I desire here to say that everyreader of these remarkable letters should remember that they have proceededfrom the pen of a very eminent layman, who has not had theadvantage, or disadvantage, of any special theological training; but yetwhose extensive studies in Art have not prevented him from fully recognizing,and boldly avowing, his belief that religion is everybody'sbusiness, and his not less than another's. The draught may be a bitterone for some of us; but it is a salutary medicine, and we ought not toshrink from swallowing it.

I shall be glad to receive such expressions of opinion as I may befavoured

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