Silent Worship : the Way of Wonder. By L. Violet
Hodgkin. (Headley. Is. 6d. net.)--Mias Hodgkin's Swarthmore Lecture traces through the ages the persistence of silent worship, which is commonly regarded as peculiar to the Society of Friends. It is a well-written and instructive little book. Miss Hodgkin admits frankly that " silent worship at its worst is probably as artificial as the most ornate ceremony and is possibly even less profitable to the .soul." She thinks that it may open a way to religious union :— " The fact may not be generally known that in the spring of 1918, when the bitterness of feeling among different sections of Irishmen had reached a degree unparalleled for centuries, Nationalists, Orangemen and Sinn Feiners were all able to meet together in the cathedral of St. Patrick at Dublin for an hour of silent worship. In silence the underlying unity prevailed, although any spoken words might have shattered the assembly into irreconcilable fragments."
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