The varied and directly conflicting versions of the terms and counterterms that one hears of as being put urging. The West Sussex County council propose to drive a by-pass within a quarter-of-a-mile of Sompting church; building would follow of course, and so goodbye to the beauty d historic atmosphere of the spot.
Sompting church is one of the most interesting in England. It began with monastery founded in the ninth century. Parts of it are indubitably Saxon, with the long-and-short work which Saxon builders loved. The tower has only two others like it in existence, one being a 19th century miration in Southampton. And in (ae church yard is buried the famous Sussex bowler George Brown. who said te Lave bowled so last that once, when a man tried to step one of his deliveries with a coat, the ball tore through the coat and killed a dog on the other side.
Altogether there is gocd reason for the effort which is being made to stop. the West Sussex Councils by-pass. But it is an unequal contest. What about the sacred speed of the motor cars? What of the tremendous challenge thrown down to them by the Coronation Scot? of the sexes, new views of marriage bad come into existence. If the ma purposes of marriage had been trated, it had ceased to have any spiritual meaning or sanction. Where the kernel of marriage had been lost, the tendency of the modern generation was to throw away the shell
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