The Religion of Mr. Kipling (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Religion of Mr. Kipling The appearance of Mr. Rudyard Kipling's Recessional Hymn may well be considered one of the chief religious events of the past two years. The hymn itself resounded through England like a great organ note, awakening distant echoes of Luther's hymn, of Milton's sonnet, "On the Late Massacre in Piemont, " and the noble cadences of the Fifty-first Psalm. The response of the people was not less impressive. Throughout Great Britain and the colonies there went a thrill of contrite and reverent patriotism such as the English have seldom felt, and such as no other nation, except it be our own, is at all capable of. No one of Anglo-Saxon race, no matter how widely separated from the events which were the occasion of the poem, can read it unmoved. The majesty and restraint of these great lines not only reassured our generation that the splendid succession of English poets has not yet fallen desolate, but also served to show anew the essentially religious basis of Anglo-Saxon character, and to confirm us in the faith that great art is forever inseparable from religion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.