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Miss Munns, however, had the same complaint to make about her niece, and delivered herself of many homilies on the subject. "Extremes," she said, "extremes, my dear, ought always to be avoided. To be constantly running from one extreme to another shows an unbalanced character.
But if they were forced to read the Homilies from the pulpit the spirit of their teaching remained unchanged; and it was easy for them to cast contempt on the new services, till they seemed to old-fashioned worshippers a mere "Christmas game." But the lapse of years did its work in emptying parsonage after parsonage.
Whether the Recognitions or the Homilies came first in order of time is a question much debated among critics, and the even way in which the best opinions seem to be divided is a proof of the uncertainty of the data. The majority of critics assign the Clementines, in one form or the other, to the middle of the second century.
The homilies published for the use of the clergy, and which they were enjoined to read every Sunday in all the churches, inculcate every where a blind and unlimited passive obedience to the prince, which on no account, and under no pretence, is it ever lawful for subjects in the smallest article to depart from or infringe. * Strype's Life of Whitgift, book iv. chap. 11. Neal, vol. i. p. 564.
Ambrose, bishop of Milan, remarked various readings in the Latin copies of the New Testament, and appeals to the original Greek; Lastly, Chrysostom, it is well known, delivered and published a great many homilies, or sermons, upon the Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles.
"I shall do no such thing," I replied, immediately; "I have not read 'Gil Bias' without profiting in some degree from it, and I find your Majesty's order too much like that given him by the Archbishop of Granada, to warn him of the moment when he should begin to fall off in the composition of his homilies."
It was only one splendid breath they had, in spite of their brave mockery at the winter outside the glass; and it was a losing game in the end, it seemed, this revolt against the homilies by which the world is run. Paul took one of the blossoms carefully from his coat and scooped a little hole in the snow, where he covered it up.
Uncommon silly, he considered, these homilies of his must have been, mere twitterings of the unfledged. But now he saw more in the lines, a deeper interpretation which he had earned the right to make. "Oh world, where all things change and nought abides, Oh life, the long mutation is it so? Is it with life as with the body's change? Where, e'en tho' better follow, good must pass."
WHILE Hester lived, the day was bright With something more than common light 'Twas the moon's difference to the night. As summer sun and summer shower Revive the tree, the herb, and flower, Hers was the gift of warmth and power. She was not what the world calls wise; Yet, the mute language of her eyes Was worth a thousand homilies.
The churches were again opened, an atheistic ritual, and licentious homilies,* were substituted for the proscribed service and an absurd and ludicrous imitation of the Greek mythology was exhibited, under the title of the Religion of Reason.
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