Produced by Delphine Lettau, Hazel Batey and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net This E text uses UTF-8 (unicode) file encoding. If the apostrophes, quotation marks and greek text [ἀπολύτρωσις] in this paragraph appear as garbage, you may have an incompatible browser or unavailable fonts. First, make sure that your browser’s “character set” or “file encoding” is set to Unicode (UTF-8). You may also need to change the default font. STONES OF THE TEMPLE R I V I N G T O N S London _Waterloo Place_ Oxford _High Street_ Cambridge _Trinity Street_ Illustration: STONES OF THE TEMPLE STONES OF THE TEMPLE or Lessons from the fabric and furniture of the Church By WALTER FIELD, M.A., F.S.A. RIVINGTONS London, Oxford, and Cambridge 1871 "When it pleased God to raise up kings and emperors favouring sincerely the Christian truth, that which the Church before either could not or durst not do, was with all alacrity performed. Temples were in all places erected, no cost was spared: nothing judged too dear which that way should be spent. The whole world did seem to exult, that it had occasion of pouring out gifts to so blessed a purpose. That cheerful devotion which David did this way exceedingly delight to behold, and wish that the same in the Jewish people might be perpetual, was then in Christian people every where to be seen. So far as our Churches and their Temple have one end, what should let but that they may lawfully have one form?"--Hooker's "Ecclesiastical Polity." ✠ CONTENTS PREFACE. _Chap._ _Page_ I. THE LICH-GATE 1 II. LICH-STONES 11 III. GRAVE-STONES 19 IV. GRAVE-STONES 31 V. THE PORCH 43 VI. THE PORCH 51 VII. THE PAVEMENT 63 VIII. THE PAVEMENT 73 IX. THE PAVEMENT 81 X. THE PAVEMENT 91 XI. THE WALLS 103 XII. THE WALLS 111 XIII. THE WINDOWS 123 XIV. A LOOSE STONE IN THE BUILDING 145 XV. THE FONT 155