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the very best eflforts to adorn and make worthy the temple 

 which is the abode of the King of kings. No longer should 

 we, while enjoying all around us the best that our culture can 

 afford, employ in our worship merely those things which our 

 emotions and our artistic sensibilities tell us are unworthy of 

 the great object of worship. It is much like keeping the best 

 for ourselves and giving the second best to the Church. 



We therefore have reached a point in our history where we 

 can seriously consider art and the artist in the development of 

 our public worship. It is our duty to do so, unless we are 

 willing to fall far below the standard of our forefathers. If 

 they had beautiful churches, so should we have them. If 

 they had noble and imposing adornments of God's house, we 

 should have them also. As the Church has increased in the 

 past century, on its material and spiritual sides among the 

 people of this diocese and land, so may it also increase in the 

 coming century in its artistic growth and in its appeal to the 

 beautiful and glorious in the worship of Almighty God. 



