I
came across these words of Underhill in a letter from her to Dom John Chapman
dated June 1931 and found myself resonating with them:
I
have been for years now a practising Anglo-Catholic … and solidly believe in
the Catholic status of the Anglican Church., as to orders and sacraments,
little as I appreciate many of the things done among us. It seems to me a respectable suburb of the
city of God – but all the same, part of “greater London.” I appreciate the superior food, etc., to be
had nearer the centre of things. But the
whole point to me is in the fact that
our Lord has put me here, keeps on
giving me more and more jobs to do for souls here, and has never given me orders
to move. In fact, when I had been
inclined to think of this, something has always stopped me: and if I did it, it
would be purely an act of spiritual self-interest ad self-will. I know what the push of God is like, and
should obey it if it came – at least I trust and believe so.
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