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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from God The Invisible King by H. G. Wells: in unison. The writer does not understand this desire or need for
collective prayer very well, but there are people who appear to do
so and there is no reason why they should not assemble for that
purpose. And there is no doubt that divine poetry, divine maxims,
religious thought finely expressed, may be heard, rehearsed,
collected, published, and distributed by associations. The desire
for expression implies a sort of assembly, a hearer at least as well
as a speaker. And expression has many forms. People with a strong
artistic impulse will necessarily want to express themselves by art
when religion touches them, and many arts, architecture and the
drama for example, are collective undertakings. I do not see why
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