All His Tolerative Legislation Essentially Pagan--Christians did Not Seek for Sunday Laws--The First Sunday Law, 321 A.D., Pagan in Every Particular--Essentially Identical with Existing Laws Concerning Other Days--Legislation against Heathen Religions Feeble and Unenforced--Constantine Not a “Christian Prince.” CHAPTER XII. OTHER FORMS OF PAGAN RESIDUUM IN CHRISTIANITY 231 A Low Standard of Religious Life--Faith in Relics--The Cross an Ancient Pagan (Phallic) Symbol--A “Charm” borrowed from Paganism--Constantine’s Use of the Composite Symbol as a Military Standard--Prevalence of Faith in “Charms”--Sign of the Cross in Baptism--Baptism and Holy Water as “Charms”--Stupendous Miracles, like Pagan Prodigies, through Baptism--Delayed Baptism--Orientation at Baptism, etc. CHAPTER XIII. SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED 263 Lights in Worship--Worshipping “toward the East”--Easter Fires--Beltane or Baal Fires--Penance--Mariolatry--The Mass--Purgatory and Prayers for the Dead--Peter’s Keys--Christmas--Easter--Lent, etc. CHAPTER XIV. FIVE CONCLUSIONS. THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF PROTESTANTISM INVOLVED IN PRESENT ISSUES 282 Protestants must Accept the Bible _in Fact_, as well as in Theory, or be Overthrown--The Bible must be Reinterpreted in the Light of “Higher Criticism” and Deeper Spiritual Life--The Present Tendencies in Bible Study Mark the Opening of the Second Stage of the Protestant Movement--Baptism must Cease to be the Foot-Ball of Denominational Polemics and be Raised to a Question of Obedience to the Example of Christ--Protestants must Return to the Sabbath, Christianized by Christ, and to True Sabbathism, Which Is as Undenominational as Faith--Such Sabbathism, and God’s Sabbath, must be Restored to the Place from Which Pagan No-Sabbathism and the Pagan Sunday Drove Them--“Sabbath” Legislation Is Unchristian--All Union of Christianity with the State must Yield before the Normal Development of True Protestantism. INDEX 301 * * * * * PAGANISM IN CHRISTIANITY. CHAPTER I. REMAINS OF PAGANISM IN CHRISTIANITY. Preliminary Survey--An Imaginary Past--Issue between Protestantism and Romanism--General Testimony Relative to Pagan Elements in Christianity, from Dyer, Lord, Tiele, Baronius, Polydore Virgil, Fauchet, Mussard, De Choul, Wiseman, Middleton, Max Müller, Priestley, Thebaud, Hardwick, Maitland, Seymore, Renan, Killen, Farrar, Merivale, Westropp and Wake, and Lechler.