AND THE CHURCH Letters to the Clergy BY JOHN RUSKIN, D. C. L. WITH REPLIES FROM CLERGY AND LAITY, AND AN EDITED, WITH ESSAYS AND COMMENTS, BY THE REV. F. A. MALLESON, M.A. VICAR OF BROUGHTON-IN-FURNESS Anchora Sped STRAHAN AND COMPANY LIMITED 34 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON [All rights reserved] 188.0 HARVARD COLLEGE APR 12 1924 Norton ofend Hazell, Watson, & Viney, Printers London and Aylesbury. INTRODUCTION. HE first reading of the Letters to THE the Clerical Society to which they were first addressed was prefaced with the following remarks :— A few words by way of introduction will be absolutely necessary before I proceed to read Mr. Ruskin's letters. They originated simply in a proposal of mine, which met with so ready and willing a response, that it almost seemed like a simultaneous thought. They are addressed nominally to myself, as representing the |