"It must be owned that ancient objects of Art, as far as hitherto known, afford no corroboration of the use of the cross in the simple transverse form familiar to us at any period preceding or even closely succeeding the words of St. Chrysostom." That is to say, although Constantine introduced the Monogram of Christ and the cross of four equal arms before St. Chrysostom was born, and, making them symbols of the Roman Empire, would, whether a Sun-God worshipper or a Christian, in any case have imposed them upon what he established as his State Religion, it was not till after these solar symbols of the Gauls were accepted as Christian that such a cross as could possibly have been a representation of an instrument of execution was introduced. As to the crucifix, we are told that though this is said by some to be referred to in the works of St. Gregory of Nyssa--a Bishop of Tours who lived in the sixth century, and also in the injunctions of the often quoted council of Greek bishops A.C. 692 called the "Quini-sextum" or "in Trullo," the evidence is "Insufficient to convince most modern archaeologists that a crucifix in any sense now accepted was meant." In other words, not only is it clear that the cross as a representation of the instrument of execution upon which Jesus died was not introduced till after the days of Constantine, but it is also evident that the crucifix, the earliest known representation of that execution, was not introduced till centuries later. Other noteworthy admissions are made in the work above quoted from, but we must pass on to the Dean of Canterbury's comparatively recent work upon the same subject. Dean Farrar states upon page 11 of his _Life of Christ as represented in Art_ that "Of all early Christian symbols the _Fish_ was the most frequent and the favourite." The Fish; and not the Cross. Moreover the Dean significantly adds upon the next page, that the Fish "Continued to be a common symbol down to the days of Constantine." And the significance lies in the fact that the introduction by Constantine of the solar symbols venerated by the Gauls, may account for the displacement of the symbol of the Fish from favour. Upon page 19 Dr. Farrar goes on to say that "Two symbols continued for ages to be especially common, of which I have not yet spoken. They were not generally adopted, even if they appeared at all, until after the Peace of the Church at the beginning of the fourth century. I mean the cross and the monogram of Christ." Here again, it will be seen, the Dean admits that the cross, as the symbol of our religion, came in with Constantine.