The Soul of a Bishop

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H. G. Wells. The Soul of a Bishop

The Soul of a Bishop

Table of Contents

CHAPTER THE FIRST - THE DREAM

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CHAPTER THE SECOND - THE WEAR AND TEAR OF EPISCOPACY

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CHAPTER THE THIRD - INSOMNIA

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CHAPTER THE FOURTH - THE SYMPATHY OF LADY SUNDERBUND

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CHAPTER THE FIFTH - THE FIRST VISION

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CHAPTER THE SIXTH - EXEGETICAL

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CHAPTER THE SEVENTH - THE SECOND VISION

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CHAPTER THE EIGHTH - THE NEW WORLD

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CHAPTER THE NINTH - THE THIRD VISION

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H. G. Wells

Published by Good Press, 2019

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The bishop wished that fine points of ceremonial might have been left out of the discussion.

Something much bigger than that was laying hold of his intelligence, the realization of a world extravagantly out of hand. The sky, the wind, the telegraph poles, had been jabbing in the harsh lesson of these men's voices, that the church, as people say, “wasn't in it.” And that at the same time the church held the one remedy for all this ugliness and contention in its teaching of the universal fatherhood of God and the universal brotherhood of men. Only for some reason he hadn't the phrases and he hadn't the voice to assert this over their wrangling and their stiff resolution. He wanted to think the whole business out thoroughly, for the moment he had nothing to say, and there was the labour leader opposite waiting smilingly to hear what he had to say so soon as the bout between the vicar and the rationalist was over.

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