NORTH.
I am not urging objections, sir. I seldom—never, indeed—urge objections to anything. I desire only to place all things in their true light.
BULLER.
Don't frown, sir—smile. Enough.
NORTH.
The whole composition of the Service is copious and various. Human Supplication, the lifting up of the hands of the creature knowing his own weakness, dependence, lapses, and liability to slip—man's own part, dictated by his own experience of himself, is the basis. Readings from the Old and New Volume of the Written Word are ingrafted, as if God audibly spoke in his own House; the Authoritative added to the Supplicatory.
BULLER.
Finely true. We Church of England men love you, Mr North—we do indeed.
NORTH.
The hymns of the sweet Singer of Israel, in literal translation, adopted as a holier inspired language of the heart.