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Excerpt from A Sermon: Preached in St. James's Church, Bury St. Edmunds, on Tuesday, the 10th of December, 1850, in Aid of the Funds, for the Repair of the Organ
I must begin by reminding you of the peculiarly repre sentative position of the two old parish churches in this town. They are all that remain of the ecclesiastical splendour of which Bury was once the centre; and, though they are but fragments, their architectural preportions far exceed the beggarly endowment by which they are sup ported. In the days of the Abbey, this place was not only the spiritual metropolis of the whole district, but the same foundation which opened its doors to the poor and weary, and dispensed its alms to citizens and foreigners alike, claimed either feudal superiority or an actual right of property over the fairest domains in the neighbourhood. In his rights, no less than in his duties, the lord abbot of St. Edmundsbury refused to be circumscribed by the limits of a municipality; and while he gathered in his rents from far and wide, he made provision for an equally large supply to the spiritual and bodily wants of the country. Among the arrangements which I would refer to this frank acknowledg ment of extended responsibility, I do not hesitate to include the erection of the two parish churches, which once stood as adjuncts to the great Abbey Minster, and which, in their more modern form, still represent the spiritual activity of the great monastic establishment. For the monks themselves.
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