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When I was in both the cubs and the scouts I remember that in our scout promise each week we had to promise “to do our duty to God and the Queen” But what is one’s duty to God?

A Sermon by Revd Jonathan Evens, Bella Ikpasaja and Ruth Wooldridge for Harvest

The 2019 film, The Professor and the Madman, set in London, beginning in 1872, tells the story of an American surgeon and Civil War veteran, William Chester Minor, who, in a fit of paranoid rage, wrongly believing there to be a plot to murder him, shoots and kills George Merrett, leaving a widow, Eliza, and six orphaned children.

I wonder if you are a person who loses things and spends a lot of time looking for something that you have just put down but just can’t remember where.

If people were falling and breaking their leg across the country, editorials would be demanding an inquiry. Health and safety requirements would change within hours.

A Sermon preached at St Martin-in-the-Fields on September 1, 2019 by Revd Dr Sam Wells