George Borrow: A Sermon Preached in Norwich Cathedral on July 6, 1913

· 1919

"As for me, I would seek unto God, which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number."--_Job_ _v._ 8. You may desire some explanation of why we in this Cathedral, have thought it right to take part with the city in the public commemoration of George Borrow. It is not, of course, merely because he was a devoted lover of our ancient house, though for that we are not ungrateful. Nor again is it merely because he was for the most active years of his life a zealous servant of the Bible Society; and our Church has taken a special interest in that society since the day when Bishop Bathurst, first of his episcopal brethren, appeared upon its platforms side by side with Jos…

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