Bishop Westcott And The Miners (The Bishop Westcott Memorial Lecture 18 November 1966)

Geoffrey Best

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 1967

Beschreibung

40 pages. (Bishop Westcott memorial lecture ; 1966) "But it was not as the exponent of industrial conciliation and the nursing father of the Christian Social Union, any more than it was as the world- famous New Testament scholar and theologian or the Anglican `Brooke our bishop', that Bishop Westcott was only, or indeed, as I suspect, chiefly known among the (so far as they were formally Christian) mainly Methodist inhabitants of the ugly windswept mining villages and dirty industrial towns of late Victorian County Durham. The image of their bishop that in- creasingly pervaded those poor streets was of an eccentrically accessible, imperturbable, unmistakably kind, humble and unassuming man of God of whom rumour reported strange, impressive, unbishoplike things: that he ate sand- wiches in railway compartments and took tea in cottage kitchens, that he sometimes sat still and meditative for long periods in the waiting-rooms of local stations, that he would share cabs with curates and trade unionists, that he would let working folk freely into Auckland Park and take them into his palace, just as if it were, forsooth, a sort of home, and invite their brass-bands--supreme achievements of their modest culture--to play upon his lawn. And at the end there was another story too:how,being then seventy-six years old and within a week of death, he nevertheless insisted on keeping his engagement to preach at the miners' Gala service in his cathedral; how, though he had to be supported by the Dean and the Archdeacon in the long procession.he nevertheless preached.his last sermon to them,`in a voice which.for fullness and vigour I [had] never heard him use before.'" (SL#26). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers SL7777

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Titel: Bishop Westcott And The Miners (The Bishop ...

Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Erscheinungsdatum: 1967

Einband: Soft cover

Zustand: Very Good