. Social England; a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . ints were, when the Virgin wasin question, attributed to jiarticular images of her. It is ditiicultto describe this attribution of miraculous gifts to tlie actualimage otherwise than as idolatry of the grossest kind. A celibate priesthood who added to the worship of the Cod-Man that of his Virgin Mother wduld scarcely be likely to be FAITH AXI) riiAUTICE IN THE MIDDLE AGES. 775 enthusiastic abdut matrimony.
. Social England; a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . ints were, when the Virgin wasin question, attributed to jiarticular images of her. It is ditiicultto describe this attribution of miraculous gifts to tlie actualimage otherwise than as idolatry of the grossest kind. A celibate priesthood who added to the worship of the Cod-Man that of his Virgin Mother wduld scarcely be likely to be FAITH AXI) riiAUTICE IN THE MIDDLE AGES. 775 enthusiastic abdut matrimony. To begin with, it was a heathen At tirst the Church contented itself with sanctifyingby a reUgious ceremony the marriage of its own members. As itgrew in power the rehgious ceremony bei^ame a sacrauient; andthe parallel found to marriage in the union of Christ and theChurch caused the ministers of that (iiurch to define withincreasing exactness the terms under which alone the matrimonialbond would receive their sanctitication. For, in the next place,the extreme laxity of tamily relations under the RnmanEm|iirc produced a state of society against which the whole. ijT. a::tho-\y in Tin: deslut. (,LittticU IsuUtr.) Christian conception was a standing protest. Our own bears witness to the feelings of the (hurch with regardto the of matrimony. First, it was oidained for the pro-creation of children .... secondly, it was ordained for a remedyagainst sin. It was the appointed physical means of projtagat-ing the race: it was allowed by the Church for fear of siimethingworse. The purely animal side of the relationship was thrownout into relief by a body to whom were denied the comfort andconsolation of a lawful helpmeet and of c-hiidren born in the lawgivers of the Chunli did not hesitate to fenceround the ecclesiastical sanction of matrimony with restrictionsAvhose rigour ordy too plainly bore witness to the lax custonis of & 7
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