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colouring, and men wore flashing plate-armour. Now that they fight at a distance of five miles with weapons for which there is no sufficient body-armour, thin khaki has taken its place. In the same kind of way, therefore, do the outward presentations and protections of vital truth vary in. accordance with the attacks made upon it. It was sufficient in pre-Arian days to proclaim that Jesus was the Son of God ; but so soon as men began, under cover of this phrase, to deduce that He was therefore inferior to His Father, it became necessary to show that the analogy meant His identity of substance, but not an essentially second position. As with doctrine, so with other matters, even the most minute. As society passed from medievalism to a pseudo- classicism, in architecture, in the cut of clothes, and in modes of speech, as well as in the realms of thought, it became necessary, if the Church was to hold her old intimate position in earthly life, that she too should permit her fashions to change : she retained, for example, her sacrificial vestment, but she cut away its folds; she still sot her altar up as the instrument of Sacrifice, but she made it of white marble and white wood and carved sacrificial wreaths upon it, and covered it with a multitude of wax candles. And, once more, as national characteristics began finally to be obliterated, and Society to seek to be cosmopolitan, the Church too met the movement by augmenting her centralisation, aud Ireland, for instance, is found to be reproducing the details of Borne. Now this is a vast and most suggestive theme. Volumes

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