"And the man who publicly displays this piece of dress--the work of human hands--for reverent regard--who leads astray the religious feelings of the credulous, ignorant, or suffering people--giving thereby an impulse to vice and superstition--who wrings their substance from the poor and starving multitude--who entails on Germany the ridicule of other lands, and who draws more close together the heavy clouds which float already dark and dismally above our heads--this man is a bishop, a German bishop. It is Arnoldi, Bishop of Treves! "Arnoldi, Bishop of Treves, I therefore turn to you, and demand, by authority of my office and calling as a priest and teacher of the German people--in the name of Christendom, in the name of the German nation, and in the name of its instructors--that you put an end to the unchristian spectacle of the exhibition of the Holy Tunic--and withdraw this garment, that the offence which it has given may not be still increased! For, do you not know--as bishop you ought to know--that the Founder of the Christian religion left to his disciples and his followers not his coat but his spirit?--his coat, Bishop Arnoldi of Treves, belongs to his _executioners!_ Do you not know--as bishop you ought to know--that Jesus taught--'God is a Spirit, and they who worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth?' and He may be worshipped everywhere, not only in the temple at Jerusalem, on the Mount Gerizim, or at Treves, in presence of the holy tunic; do you not know--as bishop you ought to know--that the Gospel expressly forbids the adoration of every image and of every relic? that Christians in the Apostolic age, and in the three first centuries, suffered neither images nor relics in their churches (and _they_ might have had plenty of them)? that the worship of images and relics is a Heathen custom, and that the Fathers in the first three centuries abused the Heathens on account of it? We read, for instance, (Div. inst. 11., c. 2,) 'Neither do these besotted men understand that if the images possessed life and motion, they would rather worship the man by whom they had been formed.' Lastly, do you not know--as bishop you ought to know this also--that the vigorous and healthy mind of the German people was first degraded to the worship of relics by the Crusades in the 13th and 14th centuries? when the exalted conception of the Godhead which Christianity inculcates, had been obscured by all the lying marvels brought from eastern lands? Hark ye! Bishop Arnoldi of Treves, you know all this, and better probably than I can tell it to you. You also know the effects which superstition and the idolatrous adoration of relics have worked among us, namely, the religious and political bondage of Germany; and yet, you can display your relics to the admiration of the multitude. And were it even possible you should be ignorant of all that I have told you,--that the salvation of souls was your sole aim in the exhibition of this Holy