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...stress of business . . ." And in the stress of the business of criticism, Kronenberger commands an unmatched style. For he can balance a sentence as if it were a crown jewel on a velvet pillow; and he can also, occasionally, throw the pillow across the hall at a particularly dull archdeacon. The chief merit of The Republic of Letters (besides establishing the author as one of that republic's leading citizens) is a feeling it generates in the reader-the feeling that the books under discussion must be read at the first opportunity, or, if they have been read, must...
...abominable. Sir Christopher Wren's imposing structure, completed in 1710, has never been right for psalms or sermons. Fine phrases bounce off the high stone walls, sound in some spots like garbled incomprehensible Latin. "Acoustically, St. Paul's is the worst cathedral in Europe," admits the Archdeacon of London, the Venerable O. H. Gibbs-Smith. "Except, of course, St. Peter's in Rome...
...microphone, causing a loud, cacophonous howl), churchmen were favorably impressed. Now congregations should be able to listen to historic chants, sermons will sound as if they actually come from the pulpit, not from the older loudspeakers that were spotted under seats and in other improbable locations. The engineers, said Archdeacon Gibbs-Smith, have been clever enough to preserve "the sense of the numinous [consciousness of the Holy] which is so vital in divine worship...
Back in England last month for medical treatment, ailing Archdeacon Gill heard from his people. Their chief had suddenly died; equally troubling, they feared that their Archdeacon might not be coming back. "Oh my dear Father Romney Gill," they wrote. "This request is not from us the Manau boys merely, but it is from God we are speaking. You landed a long time ago on our shore, you brought to us the news of our Lord Jesus, and our fathers rose up and loved you and you loved our fathers . . . Now seeing your sickness our hearts are very troubled...
...would return, he replied, and promptly set off for New Guinea. Last week, the Church Times had news to announce about Archdeacon Gill. Stephen Romney Maurice Gill was back at his post, and his parishioners, in their joy, had elected him chief of the tribe. "No white man," said the Times, "has ever before been so honored...