William D Killen (185 results)

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. THE WORSHIP OF THE CHURCH.The religion of the primitive Christians must have appeared exceedinglystrange to their pagan contemporaries. The heathen worship was littlebetter than a solemn show. Its victims adorned with garlands, its incenseand music and lustral water, its priests arrayed in white robes, and its marbletemples with gilded roofs, were fitted, rather to fascinate the senses, than toimprove the heart or expand the intellect. Even the Jewish ritual, in the daysof its glory, must have had a powerful effect on the imagination. As the Is-raelites assembled from all quarters at their great festivals-as they poured inthousands and tens of thousands into the courts of their ancient sanctuary-as they surveyed the various parts of a structure which was one of the won-ders of the world-as they beheld the priests in their holy garments-and asthey gazed on the high priest himself, whose forehead glittered with goldwhilst his breastplate sparkled with precious stones-they must have felt thatthey mingled in a scene of extraordinary splendour. But, when Christianitymade its appearance in the world, it presented none of these attractions. Itsadherents were stigmatized as atheists, [463:1] because they had no altars, no temples, and no sacrifices. They held their meetings in private dwellings;3 W. D. (WILLIAM DOOL) KILLENtheir ministers wore no peculiar dress; and, by all who sought merely thegratification of the eye or of the ear, the simple service in which they engagedmust have been considered very bald and uninteresting. But they rejoicedexceedingly in its spiritual character, as they felt that they could thus drawnear to God, and hold sweet and refreshing communion with their Fatherin heaven.It is probable that, during a considerable part of the second century, theChristians had comparatively few buildings set apart for public worship. Ata time when they congregated to celebrate the rites of their religion at nightor before break of day, it is not to be supposed that they were anxious toobtrude their conventicles on the notice of their persecutors. But as theyincreased in numbers, and as the State became somewhat more indulgent, they gradually acquired confidence; and, about the beginning of the thirdcentury, the form of their ecclesiastical structures seems to have been alreadyfamiliar to the eyes of the heathen. [463:2] Shortly after that period, theirmeeting-houses in Rome were well known; and, in the reign of AlexanderSeverus, they ventured to dispute with one of the city trades the possessionof a piece of ground on which they were desirous to erect a place of worship.[463:3] When the case came for adjudication before the Imperial tribunal, the sovereign decided in their favour, and thus virtually placed them un-der the shield of his protection. When the Emperor Gallienus, about A.D.260, issued an edict of toleration, church architecture advanced apace, andmany of the old buildings, which were now falling into decay, were super-seded by edifices at once more capacious and more tasteful. The Christiansat this time began to emulate the magnificence of the heathen temples, andeven to ape their arrangements. Thus it is that some of our churches at thepresent day are nearly fac-similes of the ancient religious edifices of pagan- Trace the evolution of early faith from humble, secret gatherings in private homes to the rise of grand, magnificent cathedrals that rivaled the splendor of the ancient world. This item is printed o Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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