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His chief delight, however, was found in the perusal of an exceedingly rare and curious book in quarto Gothic the manual of a forgotten church the Vigiliae Mortuorum Secundum Chorum Ecclesiae Maguntinae. The worldly reason, however, assigned for this singular proceeding, was one which I did not feel at liberty to dispute.
She leaned forwards a little to see what he was writing. 'You know enough Latin to read that, he said, as he gave the book back to her. She read the words aloud, with a puzzled expression. "Credo in resurrectionem mortuorum." She looked at him for some explanation. 'Yes, he said, answering her unspoken question. "I believe in the resurrection of the dead."
It is beautiful because it suggests the ideal of every pregnancy that the expectant mother shall indeed expect, look forward to the life which is to be. Her motto in the ideal world or even in the world at the foundations of which we are painfully working, will be those words of the Nicene creed which the very term must recall to the mind Expecto resurrectionem mortuorum et vitam venturi sæculi.
"Nesciunt mortui, etiam sancti, quid agunt vivi, etiam eorum filii, quia animae mortuorum rebus viventium non intersunt": "The dead, though holy, know nothing of the living, no, not of their own children: for the souls of those departed, are not conversant with their affairs that remain." And if we doubt of St.
Quid ad æternitatem? This is the capital question. And the Creed ends with that phrase, resurrectionem mortuorum et vitam venturi sæculi the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come.
Her guiding thought, the guiding thought which she did her best to make ours too, "the sentiment of the ideal life, which is none other than man's normal life as we shall one day know it," is in harmony with words and promises familiar to that sacred place where she lies. Exspectat resurrectionem mortuorum, et vitam venturi sæculi.
Thomas Burnet, D.D., who flourished about the beginning of the 18th century, in his treatise entitled De Statu Mortuorum, purposely written in Latin that it might serve for the instruction of the clergy only, and not come to the knowledge of the laity, because, as he says, "too much light is hurtful for weak eyes," not only justifies, but recommends the practice of the most consummate hypocrisy, and that, too, on the most awful of all subjects; and would have his, clergy seriously preach and maintain the reality and eternity of hell torments, even though they should believe nothing of the sort themselves.
His chief delight, however, was found in the perusal of an exceedingly rare and curious book in quarto Gothic the manual of a forgotten church the Vigiliae Mortuorum secundum Chorum Ecclesiae Maguntinae. The worldly reason, however, assigned for this singular proceeding, was one which I did not feel at liberty to dispute.
Thus we may repeat, and thrill to repeat, with new meaning, the old but still living words, Expecto resurrectionem mortuorum, et vitam venturi sæculi "I look for the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come."
A detailed account of the methods of the Inquisition by Cironne, inquisitor-general for Castile, in 1356. 85:24 Pomponius Mela. Spanish geographer in the first century A.D. Author of "De Chorographia," the earliest extant account of the geography of the ancient world. 85:25 Oegipans. An epithet applied to Pan. 85:30 Vigiliae Mortuorum. No such book is known. 90:30 Mad Trist. No such book is known.
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