English, Department of
Date of this Version
1988
Document Type
Article
Citation
The George Eliot Review 19 (1988)
Abstract
In the 1987 Review an article was published entitled TO PRAY OR NOT TO PRAY. It was an answer from the Fellowship to those who criticised us for indulging in religious practice from time to time - something they regard as being unacceptable to George Eliot. In response to the article, a letter was received from The Venerable Michael Mansbridge, Chaplain and Archdeacon to The Gulf. Michael was a one-time President of the Fellowship during the years when he was Vicar of Chilvers Coton (‘Shepperton') and Astley (‘Knebley') Churches. Writing from Baghdad, and sending good wishes to the Fellowship, he recalled past times in England and compared them with his present circumstances. As he wrote, he was surrounded by the horrors of wasteful conflict and the young lives being thrown away, but also by the shades of the great visitors and travellers of the past - Gertrude Bell and Agatha Christie et al. 'The ancient grey Iraqui dust,' he wrote, 'historic, no doubt, but dirty -blows about bringing ancient places and people onto one's very lap!'
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