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440 VIII. THE MODERN PERIOD (A.D. 18121910).
serious minded students, a class which naturally includes
candidates for Orders. But surely the latter require a
time of special discipline of their own.
After their university course they need at least a year s
devotional and spiritual training, with some practical in
struction in preaching. Just as Moses was prepared for
his mission on Sinai, Elijah on Horeb, and St. Paul in
Arabia, so should each priest, who is to be a prophet to his
generation and a builder of the City of God, have a time of
retirement and communing with God :
So separate from the world his breast
May duly take and strongly keep
The print of heaven, to be expressed
Ere long on Sion s steep.
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I have ventured also to express my strong feeling as to
the blessings which might follow a revival of the diaconate
as a period of probation for the priesthood, and of the cus
tom of episcopal confirmation both of them Swedish
institutions, dropped only in a time of torpor. Whatever
may be said against the necessity of adopting such ancient
usages, I venture to think that there can be little doubt as
to their expediency. I should press them on this ground
on the attention of my dear friends and colleagues in
Sweden.
I also confidently expect that the increased interest in
the conduct of public worship will develop almost uni
versally as it has done in England. This has gone on
among us hand in hand with the development of associa
tions for the promotion of a Christian life on Church lines.
We began with greater attention to worship, from about
1840, coupling with it the first tentative efforts at organiza
tion. The level of worship among us has been raised in
an extraordinary manner, pari passu, with the growth of
these organizations. A weekly celebration of holy com
munion is now the rule, and less frequent celebration the
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John Keble, Christian Year for Thirteenth Sunday after Trinity, com
paring Hebrews viii. 5 "See that thou make all things according to the
pattern shewed to thee in the mount."
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