What the Church of England Is: a Prayer Book, and a Man Who Burned for It

Somebody said words over us before we could understand them, and somebody will say words over us again when we can no longer hear. In England, for four and a half centuries, those words have mostly come out of one book. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. Till death us do part. We have left undone those things which we ought to have done. A great many of us who would not call ourselves religious have wept at those sentences,…