“[Y]our preaching is not acceptable, and…you should resign…”
Excerpt from G.K. Chesterton's Introduction to George MacDonald and His Wife
The commonplace allegory takes what it regards as the commonplaces or conventions necessary to ordinary men and women, and tries to make them pleasant or picturesque by dressing them up as princesses or goblins or good fairies. But George MacDonald did really believe that people were princesses and goblins and good fairies, and he dressed them up as ordinary men and women…