UK Diary, Day 3

On Visiting the Writer's Museum, the National Gallery, and a Graveyard

Welcome, friends, to my ongoing chronicle of my family’s three-week long experience of the UK. We are currently in Edinburgh, and will be here till Sunday. Yesterday Edinburgh was in its fully foggy mode. This gives it a certain mood which does fit the ancient, medieval city like glove on hand.

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But before we move into the recap, let us again hear some wisdom from Evelyn Underhill:

“Real, fully corporate worship, genuine institutional religion, rest on the solidarity of the whole Christian family: the blessed company of all faithful people past and present, living and dead, from S. Peter and S. Paul to the last baptized baby. Every time we join in that worship we are joining with the whole Communion of Saints; who are just as real and living as we are—probably in the deepest sense much more living and real. They form part of that environment in which we worship; and our services ought to have in them a sufficient historical element to remind us of this fact. A preservation of historic continuity—something that ensures remembrance of our unbroken fellowship with the little company of the Upper Room, that reminds us of those spiritual ancestors on whose rich inheritance we largely live—is essential to the corporate character of Christian worship.” (from her book, Worship)