England's Antiphon

Excerpt

This could hardly be done without reference to some of the principal
phases of the religious history of the nation.  To give anything like a
full history of the religious feeling of a single county, would require a
large book, and—­not to mention sermons—­would involve a thorough
acquaintance with the hymns of the country,—­a very wide subject, which I
have not considered of sufficient importance from a literary point of
view to come within the scope of the volume.