Letter V.--A clergyman's first duty is to make the Lord's Prayer clear

and living to his people. This is what Ruskin has elsewhere insisted on in other matters--"clear," know your duty and your belief; "living," realize it in your life--realize it "as a Captain's order, to be obeyed" ("Crown of Wild Olive," Introduction, p. 13. The whole of this Introduction reads well with these Letters). Then the first clause of the Prayer is set forth as putting before us God as a loving Father.