#percy dearmer

[psikonauti]

'Wymps' by Evelyn Sharp

 Illustrated by Mrs. Percy Dearmer (Maud Dearmer),1897

[considermycat]

The Bible is “the worst printed book in the world” – Percy Dearmer. 

Here, the San Francisco Chronicle (syndicated in the Creston Review, B.C.) takes the Rev. “Pearcy” Dearmer to task for this statement, observing that the Bible remains a bestseller, notwithstanding its poor presentation. 

[she-is-amused]

A Brighter Dawn Is Breaking,

And Earth With Praise Is Waking;

For Thou, O King Most Highest,

The Power Of Death Defiest;

And Thou Hast Come Victorious,

With Risen Body Glorious,

Who Now For Ever Livest,

And Life Abundant Givest.

- Percy Dearmer

[considermycat]

Started #reading Percy Dearmer: A Parson’s Pilgrimage, by Donald Gray. 

[saveflowers1]

Art by Mrs. Percy Dearmer - (1898) from ALL THE WAY TO FAIRYLAND.

[saveflowers1]

Art by Mrs. Percy Dearmer (1898) from ALL THE WAY TO FAIRYLAND.

[my-ear-trumpet]

If English Priests had stuck to their formularies as Romans and Easterns have to theirs, then the English Church would to-day be as marked as the Roman or the Eastern Churches are by such practices as frequent Services, fasting, the supremacy of the Eucharist, and the use of distinctive vestments for the Sacraments. Those who still fancy that obedience is insular would do well to consider seriously what alternative they have to propose. They will find that the only alternative is anarchy, under which each parson may set up his own ideas of Church order and worship; and these ideas have persistently differed, not in details only, but in essentials, from the principles of the Church Catholic. By this system; or want of system, you may have a pseudo-Romanism in one parish, a pseudo-Puritanism in another, and a decorated worldliness in another, but in few will you have Catholic worship and order. Nor will you gain the respect or trust of the rest of the Church or of the world at large… But loyalty to the Prayer Book disarms the enemies of the Church, at the same time as it restores the effectiveness of her friends. And if we set–as we should–the fortunes of the Church Universal above those of our own communion, we shall still do well to remember that the weakening of Anglicanism would remove the greatest agency which God in His providence has left in the world for the reunion of Christendom.

Percy Dearmer qtd in comments at The Continuum

[jondrowe]

Memories of King's College Chapel. 'The General Confession' from the Alcuin Club's 'Illustrations of the Liturgy'. 1912.