I forgot to say that the pleasantest and most useful reading I know, on nearly all religious questions whatsoever, are Ryle’s Tracts. I forget his Christian name, but you will be sure to find them at Edinburgh. They are not professedly doctrinal but, chiefly, exhortations. The doctrine, however, comes in incidentally very pure and clear.
John Ruskin to an unnamed correspondent (November, 1854).
From: A Bookman’s Letters by W. Robertson Nicholl (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1913), pp. 286-287.
John Ruskin (1819-1900) was a British art and architecture critic. John Charles Ryle (1816-1900) was the first Anglican bishop of Liverpool, England, and a firm evangelical.
