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But more particularly she was offended with the clergy’s marriage, and that in cathedrals and colleges there were so many wives and children and widows seen, which, she said, was contrary to the intent of the founders, and so much tending to the interruption of the studies of those who were placed there.
Such checks on the clergy’s behaviour seemed to have been swept away by the Islamic revolution of 1979. Suddenly, the mullás were themselves in power, appointing their own nominees to the highest positions in the new republic, and eventually taking over these posts directly. “Revolutionary courts” were set up, answering only to the senior clergy.
Would to God that these things were observed by all who desire the worthy office of a pastor; for neither the patron’s presentation, nor the clergy’s nomination, examination and recommendation, nor the bishop’s laying on of hands and giving of institution, nor all these put together, can make up to a man’s calling to be a pastor to such or such a particular flock, without their own free election.
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