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Work: Testament of Our Lord
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Testament of Our Lord — Cooper/Maclean1902 English
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vi PREFACE period of the Church’s worship, the minds of those professionally interested in the subject were working. The Testament possesses the special interest of being the production of the very period—the very moment, we may say—-when the great transition in the Church’s fortunes, from Imperial persecution to Imperial favour, was leading to the inevitable transformation of her buildings and her services to suit her altered circumstances. She was not going to break with the past: far from it. There was a great deal still in the Empire—in the Government offices, in the Army, in society, that…
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