are scarcely listened to with patience by many: and some even scorn to accompany us through our time-honoured courts. Too many modern Christians, thankless, cold-hearted children of our Holy Church, come very little short of realizing the picture we have drawn! They carelessly tread our solemn aisles, and we bid them move reverently “because of the angels.” {107} And they wonder at our “superstition” and “weakness!” And “the fathers” (say they) were ignorant men, and their works the cumbrous records of departed folly! And as to the Saints of early days—there are decided objections to their views; objections to their rules of sanctity; objections to their prayers and customs, and heaven-ward observances; objections, in a word, to almost everything received from the Holy Founders of our Faith, and loved by all our Fathers! The long line of the “departed just,” like a still-continued choir of angels of Bethlehem, seem to be ever silently heralding “peace on earth, good will to men,” while men weary not of raising objections thereto; as if deeming it a hardship to be blessed!—Such is the Church’s mysterious history. An ALMIGHTY GOD ever “waiting to be gracious:” and man rebelling against HIM ever!—GOD sending down His gifts of grace: Man spurning the blessing!—GOD “bowing His heavens and coming down.” And man “objecting” still!—“How long shall it be, O LORD, to the end of these wonders!” IV. THE SUMMARY. FROM THE EPISTLE. {109}—“All the building fitly framed together groweth into an Holy Temple in the LORD.”—EPH. ii. 2.