A glossary of liturgical and ecclesiastical terms / compiled and arranged by the Rev. Frederick George Lee.

  • Frederick George Lee
Date:
1877
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Credit: A glossary of liturgical and ecclesiastical terms / compiled and arranged by the Rev. Frederick George Lee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INTEODUCTION. BOUT forty years ago a sma]l band of able and energetic Cambridge men originated and set on foot the Cambridge Camden Society. They were mostly unknown, and without any great social or literary influ- ence ; but their powers and deter- mination were soon to be made manifest, and their work crowned with abundant success. Their broad and general object was the repair and restoration of dilapidated churches ; their field of labour was nothing less than the Church of England, and their motto: ‘‘ Surge igitur et fac, et Dominus erit tecumHow they have succeeded, what has been effected, the extent of the great artistic and architectural revolution which has taken place, may be learned from what is now com- pleted or still going on around us. All these are, to a considerable degree, due to the efficient and energetic labours ,of the members of what was subsequently termed the “ Ecclesiological Society.” Mr. Beresford Hope, M.P., the late Dr. J. M. Neale, Mr. E. A. Paley, and the Pev. Benjamin Webb are four of the able and distinguished men, who, side by side with the late Mr. Welby Pugin, though wholly independent