“You cannot claim to worship Jesus in the tabernacle if you do not pity Jesus in the slum.”

— Frank Weston (bishop of Zanzibar)

Address to the Second Anglo-Catholic Congress (1923), in Radical Christian Writings: A Reader (2002), p. 200

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