. The Open court. OURT. Christianity and yielded its place to the cross, which now assumesa definite shape, the four-cornered upright cross, an erect, elon-gated figure of two intersecting lines cj-). The Rev. Mr. Sinker sums up his opinion of the adoption ofthe cross (which is from the standpoint of the orthodox believer)as follows : A double, and indeed manifold, meaning attached to the cross from the earli-est ages. Derived as a Christian sign from the monogram, and connected withtraditions of ancient learning, by its Egyptian form, it may be said to have stoodfor all things to all men. To
. The Open court. OURT. Christianity and yielded its place to the cross, which now assumesa definite shape, the four-cornered upright cross, an erect, elon-gated figure of two intersecting lines cj-). The Rev. Mr. Sinker sums up his opinion of the adoption ofthe cross (which is from the standpoint of the orthodox believer)as follows : A double, and indeed manifold, meaning attached to the cross from the earli-est ages. Derived as a Christian sign from the monogram, and connected withtraditions of ancient learning, by its Egyptian form, it may be said to have stoodfor all things to all men. To the earliest members of the Church it representedtheir Master, who was all in all to them ; and thus in their view, a somewhat widerand happier one than in later days, it represented all the faith—the person ofChrist, His death for man, and the life and death of man in Christ. The Laternanand other crosses point to baptism and all its train of Christian thought, withoutimmediate reference to the Lords The Coat of Arms of Christianity During the in the Kcole des Beaux Arts, Paris. (From L. Veuillot. Originally (i. e., in the Epistles of Paul) the cross is a mereidea, the thought of the death of Christ and the mortification of theflesh ; but soon the shape of the cross becomes the main object ofinterest; yet this shape remains for a long time quite indefinite. The Church Fathers compare the cross to almost anything: thetree of life in Paradise, Noahs Ark, the staff of Moses, the rod ofAaron, the pole on which Moses erects the serpent, the wood of theburnt-offering on the altar of Abraham, the arms of Moses upheldin prayer for his people, the horn of the unicorn, the four quartersof the compass, the posture of the swimmer, the attitude of adora-tion, the nose of the human face, the combination of ideas as acrossing of thoughts, the pole of a wagon, the spit of the paschal 549 lamb, the letter T, the military standard, the anchor,
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