The Sacred City

Let me encourage you to see Rome through the lens of its nickname. “Rome has been called the "Sacred City": - might not our (hometown) be called so too? There is an air about it, resonant of joy and hope: it speaks with a thousand tongues to the heart: it waves its mighty shadow over the imagination:   it stands in lowly sublimity, on the "hill of ages"; and points with prophetic fingers to the sky: it greets the eager gaze from afar, "with glistering spires and pinnacles adorned," that shine with an...