LETTERS
TO THE CLERGY
ON
The Lord's Prayer and the Church
By JOHN RUSKIN, LL.D., D.C.L.
WITH REPLIES FROM CLERGY AND LAITY, ANDAN EPILOGUE BY MR. RUSKIN
EDITED, WITH ESSAYS AND COMMENTS, BY THE
REV. F. A. MALLESON, M.A.
VICAR OF BROUGHTON-IN-FURNESS
THIRD EDITION
WITH ADDITIONAL LETTERS BY MR. RUSKIN
LONDON
GEORGE ALLEN, 156, CHARING CROSS ROAD
1896
[All rights reserved]
Printed by Ballantyne, Hanson & Co
At the Ballantyne Press
INTRODUCTION
The first reading of the Letters to theClerical Society to which they were firstaddressed in September 1879, twenty-threeclergy being present, was prefacedwith the following remarks:—
A few words by way of introductionwill be absolutely necessary before Iproceed to read Mr. Ruskin's letters.They originated simply in a proposalof mine, which met with so ready andwilling a response, that it almost seemedlike a simultaneous thought. They areaddressed nominally to myself, as representingthe body of clergy whosevisecretary I have the honour to be; theyare, in fact, therefore addressed to thisSociety primarily. But in the courseof the next month or two they will alsobe read to two other Clerical Societies,—theOrmskirk and the Brighton(junior),—who have acceded to my proposalswith much kindness, and in thefirst case have invited me of their ownaccord. I have undertaken, to thebest of my ability, to arrange and setdown the various expressions of opinion,which will be freely uttered. In solimited a time, many who may havemuch to say that would be really valuablewill find no time to-day to deliverit. Of these brethren, I beg that theywill do me the favour to express theirviews at their leisure, in writing. Theoriginal letters, the discussions, theletters which may be suggested, and afew comments of the Editor's, will beviipublished in a volume which will appear,I trust, in the beginning of the nextyear.
I will now, if you please, undertakethe somewhat dangerous responsibilityof avowing my own impressions of theletters I am about to read to you.I own that I believe I see in thesepapers the development of a principle ofthe deepest interest and importance,—namely,the application of the higheststandard in the interpretation of theGospel message to ourselves as clergymen,and from ourselves to our congregations.We have plenty elsewhere ofdoctrine and dogma, and undefinableshades of theological opinion. Let usturn at last to practical questions presentedfor our consideration by aneminent layman whose field of worklies quite as much in religion and ethics,as it does, reaching to so splendid aneminence, in Art. A man is wantedviiito show to both clergy and laity somethingof the full force and meaning ofGospel teaching. Many there are, andI am of this number, whose cry is"Exoriare aliquis."
I ask you, if possible, to do in anhour what I hav
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