Word & Song by Anthony Esolen

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Word & Song by Anthony Esolen
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For All the Saints
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For All the Saints

William Walsham How, 1864

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“If Faith is real,” said the gentlest of English bishops, William Walsham How (1823-1897), “it must worship.  If worship is real, it must behold.  Neither is the eye anything without the voice, or the voice without the eye.  It follows that Prayer is the greatest reality of our lives.”
     And the highest form of prayer, said How, was praise, and b…

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