...English lord who, after listening to a practical sermon by his rector, stalked out of church muttering, "Things have come to a pretty pass when religion is allowed to invade the sphere of private life." Shall the message of the Church be kept out also of the sphere of public life? In these matters the...

...said : " Poor Louisa is going to make a shocking marriage — a man called Tiggy, my dear, a Saint and a Radical." When Lord Melbourne had accidentally found...have prayers in his family ; but none since he has teen a Peer." A venerable Canon of Windsor, who was a younger son of a great family, told me that his...

..." Poor Louisa is going to make a shocking marriage — a man called Tiggy, my dear, a Saint and 57 a Radical." When Lord Melbourne had accidentally found...visitor: "My papa used to have prayers in his family ; tut none since he has been a Peer." A venerable Canon of Windsor, who was a younger son of a great...

...the old Whig exclaimed, "No one has a more sincere respect for the Church than I have; but I think things have come to a pretty pass when religion is allowed to invade the sphere of private life." What Lord Melbourne thus expressed, smart society thinks ; and as it thinks, so it acts. It keeps the...

...on the use of strong language : " No one has a more sincere respect for the Church than I have, but things have come to a pretty pass when religion is allowed to invade the sphere of private life." Cf. also Selden's "Table Talk": "Whether is the Church or the Scripture Judge of Religion ? In truth...

...language, the statesman said : " No one has a more sincere respect for the church than I' have, but things have come to a pretty pass when religion is allowed to invade the sphere of private life." After the last auto da fe in Lisbon, at which a Jewess, eighteen years old, was burned for heresy,...

...a sermon on profane swearing : " No one has a more sincere respect for the Church than I have, but things have come to a pretty pass when religion is allowed to invade the sphere of private life." If he were Prime Minister to-day he would certainly apply the same remark about the interference of...

...are ruled ' shall be subject to discipline. An evangelical sermon roused Lord Melbourne to exclaim, ' Things have come to a pretty pass when religion is allowed to invade the sphere of private life ! ' but in the days of the Covenanting triumph what passed for religion invaded every sphere of life,...

...found himself the unwilling listener to a rousing evangelical sermon upon sin and its consequences. " Things have come to a pretty pass when religion is allowed to invade the sphere of private life," was the disgusted criticism of Queen Victoria's first Prime Minister. Lady Macleod very naturally asked...

...religion at all. When Lord Melbourne was compelled to listen to a sermon on sin, he declared indignantly: "Things have come to a pretty pass when religion is allowed to invade the sphere of private life." There were fewer stakeburnings than in preceding centuries, but more heart-burnings, and just as much...