"A Picture of the Church in the Great State"

1912 Noel, Rev. Conrad [le Despenser Roden] (1869-1942). “A Picture of the Church in the Great State.” The Great State: Essays in Construction. By H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, Francis Evelyn Warwick, L.G. Chiozza Money, E. Ray Lankaster, C.J. Bond, E[dmund] S[idney] P[ollock] Haynes, Cecil Chesterton, Cicely [Mary] Hamilton, Roger Fry, G.R.S Taylor, Conrad [le Despenser Roden] Noel, Herbert Trench, Hugh P. Vowles (London: Harper and Bros., 1912), 301-23. U.S. ed. as Socialism and the Great State: Essays in Construction (New York: Harper & Bros., 1912), 301-23. LLL, PSt, TxU

Fiction set about 2000. The Church of England will encompass most Christian groups in England and will be more democratic. The church has been disestablished, but there is a movement to have it re-established. New saints include Thomas More (1478-1535), who was actually canonized twenty years later by the Roman Catholic Church, and John Ball (c. 1338-81), the English Lollard priest involved in the Peasant’s Revolt of 1381 (See 1886-87 Morris). The church stresses a balanced life, including a healthy sex life. There is a description of a cathedral, which includes chapels for different groups within the faith, including a Chapel of Our Lady of Health and a Chapel of Santa Claus, for children.