Sentence:  In representing part of this new picture , I will be recounting some of my own personal experiences , reactions and judgments ; but my primary aim is to transcribe what Englishmen themselves are saying and writing and implying about the Roman and Anglican Churches and about the <WSD>present</WSD> religious state of England . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  temporal sense; intermediate between past and future; now existing or happening or in consideration