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ANISHMETA MITRA
BY RUSKIN BOND
GENERAL OVERVIEW
“Lamp of Sacrifice” urged giving one's best
SECOND, HE DESCRIBES A
FALSE PIETY THAT
PROCLAIMED A MORE
HONORABLE SACRIFICE BE
MADE IN A MINISTRY TO THE
POOR AND EXTENDING
KNOWLEDGE OF THE LORD
RATHER THAN “SMOOTHING
PILLARS OR CARVING
PULPITS.”
RUSKIN WAS QUICK TO POINT OUT, “THE
QUESTION IS NOT BETWEEN GOD'S HOUSE AND
HIS POOR: IT IS NOT BETWEEN GOD'S HOUSE
AND HIS GOSPEL. IT IS BETWEEN GOD'S HOUSE
AND OURS.
HE OFFERS PRAGMATIC ADVICE FOR WORKING WITHIN OUR MEANS YET STILL
GIVING ONE'S UTMOST: “if you cannot afford marble, use Caen stone (a French
limestone), but from the best bed; and if you cannot stone, brick, but the best
brick; preferring always what is good of a lower order of work or material, to
what is bad from a higher.”
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