Excerpt from The Living Church: A Sermon Preached Before the Convention of the Diocese of Pennsylvania, May 12th, 1869 And so again of every sacred rite which, through the senses, opens a way for power to reach the heart. It is machinery still. The sensuous impression may make the soul receptive, no doubt it does, to some of the more external messages of God. But the impression itself is not soul-life. It is not a new birth, though its frightened or ecstatic shiver is easily enough mistaken for another Genesis.

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