. Scottish pictures, drawn with pen and pencil . lONA. Ihc Judaical sacerdotalism which was l)eginning to e.\tend in tht-Christian Church found no support in lona. Ihcy had forms, but not tothem did they look for life. It was the I ioly Chost, Columba maintained,that made a servant of (iotl. When llu; youth of Caledonia assembledaround their elders on these savage shores, or in their hnml)le chapel, theseministers of the Lord would say to them: Tlic I IoIn Scriptures are theonly rule of faith . . Throw aside all merit of works, and look for .salvationto the grace of Cod alone . . P)eware of a
. Scottish pictures, drawn with pen and pencil . lONA. Ihc Judaical sacerdotalism which was l)eginning to e.\tend in tht-Christian Church found no support in lona. Ihcy had forms, but not tothem did they look for life. It was the I ioly Chost, Columba maintained,that made a servant of (iotl. When llu; youth of Caledonia assembledaround their elders on these savage shores, or in their hnml)le chapel, theseministers of the Lord would say to them: Tlic I IoIn Scriptures are theonly rule of faith . . Throw aside all merit of works, and look for .salvationto the grace of Cod alone . . P)eware of a religion which consists of outward(jl;servanccs : it is belter to keep )()ur heart |iine lielore (loil to al)stainfrom meats . . ()ne alone is your heael, Jesus ( Inist. Jhitoiy oj the Kejormatton, viil. v. buok .wii, cli. I. sn so. ION A. 77 Many a wild and foolish legend no doubt became attached to the laterrecords of a life which we thus see dimly through the mist of centuriesand the imagination of the great evangelists biographers. We reject theSaint Columbu of the hagiologies, but we are able to believe in Columba,the great simple-hearKxl missionary to the Highlands of Scotland ; and ifthe form of truth that he introduced was defaced by some errors, there wasat any rate the vitality in it which proved it to contain the essentials of
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