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...Bishop by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Soul of a Bishop by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania St... ... H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Soul of a Bishop by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyo... ...ard, had gone insincerely to the side- board humming “From Greenland’s icy mountains,” and then, glancing over his shoulder, had stolen one of his own... ...ween these two, that eludes them, that eludes the human mind, as water es- capes from the hand. It is unity and opposition they have to declare at the... ...and then suddenly walked out through a door and discovered the sea and the mountains and stars. So it was with me and the Anglican Church. It seems so... ... continents and seas, its ships and cities, its country-sides and mountain ranges. It was so small that he could see it all at once, and so great and ... ...y to attend to it. It’s well we’re through with Easter. Bishop Buncombe of Eastern Blowdesia was coming here anyhow. And there is Canon Bliss. There’s...