A Joint and Visible Fellowship

These little essays have a homogeneity of subject: they treat of worship. Worship is regarded as a universal feature of religion; but I often wonder how many worshippers know how to worship or know what they worship. Are they not like the Athenians or the Samaritans mentioned respectively in Acts and in the Gospel of John?

Although the Quaker manner of worship – and that is the background of Beatrice Snell’s writing – is in some ways the most distinctive in Protestantism, it is as likely as...