The world: historical and actual . reekpriests are compelled to marry. There are someGreek monks, like the community at Athos, butmonasticism is not a prominent feature of thechurch. So there is oracular confession of the laityto the clergy, but not so markedly as in the Papalchurch. Baptism with the Greeks is by immersion,and that three consecutive times. The old Greekcalendar, which is eleven days behind the new styleintroduced by Pope Gregory XIII., is still retained,notwithstanding the serious inconvenience of thusdiffering in the computation of time from all otherChristian countries. The
The world: historical and actual . reekpriests are compelled to marry. There are someGreek monks, like the community at Athos, butmonasticism is not a prominent feature of thechurch. So there is oracular confession of the laityto the clergy, but not so markedly as in the Papalchurch. Baptism with the Greeks is by immersion,and that three consecutive times. The old Greekcalendar, which is eleven days behind the new styleintroduced by Pope Gregory XIII., is still retained,notwithstanding the serious inconvenience of thusdiffering in the computation of time from all otherChristian countries. The late Dean Stanley char-acterized the Greek worship as a union of barbaricrudeness and elaborate ceremonialism. And now we take our final leave of the Greeks toenter upon the career of the great nation of anti-quity which alone can be compared with the Gre-cian in importance to the world. Fundamen-tally and essentially unlike, they have such fellow-ship in pre-eminence that each may Well be calledthe counterpart of the other. *r :k.
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