These two items – ‘buildings’ and ‘meetings’ – are intertwined. Many believers simply cannot divorce the two. Meetings are held in dedicated buildings; dedicated buildings are devoted to meetings. So says Christendom. Miall dealt with this fetish. Miall spoke of the appalling ‘squeamishness’ (his word – I would use veneration)1 which many believers have about buildings or ‘sacred spaces’; or, as he put it, ‘buildings appropriated to spiritual uses’. He was concerned, not only about the wrongness of the practice – ‘superstitious’, he called it – but the consequence; namely, that an emphasis on a building actually gets in the way of reaching the lost: There cannot be a doubt that there exists very widely, in connection with this subject [that is, the emphasis on buildings], an immense amount of superstitious feeling [which is], in its influence, obstructive of religious effort.
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