Re: The BOZ Internet List
CGlendin (CGlendin@AOL.COM)
Fri, 8 May 1998 11:20:07 EDT
My Dear and Most Inimitable Boz:
I am shocked by your prosaic explanation! I realize the religious
establishments of your day were less *religious* and more *established*
institutions of business and, as such, held in scorn by one more used to
putting his faith into action rather than words.
I think, if I may be counted as one so bold as to try and understand the mind
of one of my most admired human beings, you are protecting your private
relationship with "Our Lord and Saviour" (words used by you in the final
"chapters" of your last will and testament. However, the fruits of that
relationship are more than evident in your devout philanthropy. One truly
*can't* hide one's light under a bushel -- a deed done before men is truly a
city on a hill.
I used the term "private relationship" because I just learned yesterday what
your last published work was: "The Life of Our Lord," which was written for
your children and kept in secret for more than 80 years -- being first
published in London in 1934.
Hide it as you will, I think there's more of gravity than of the grave in
you...
...and I do you HONOR, sir!
Humbly tugging his forelock,
Charles Glendinning