History of the Alleghany Evangelical Lutheran synod of Pennsylvania, together with a topical handbook of the Evangelical Lutheran church, its ancestry, origin and development . ns as triflingas, How many angels could stand on the point of a needle?and their influence began to wane. The decline was hastened bythe coming to the West of original Greek manuscripts, after Con-stantinople fell. The copies of the ancient Greek philosophersand Scriptures which these schoolmen had were imperfect trans-lations, coming through the Mohammedan schools of it was discovered that their Scriptural a
History of the Alleghany Evangelical Lutheran synod of Pennsylvania, together with a topical handbook of the Evangelical Lutheran church, its ancestry, origin and development . ns as triflingas, How many angels could stand on the point of a needle?and their influence began to wane. The decline was hastened bythe coming to the West of original Greek manuscripts, after Con-stantinople fell. The copies of the ancient Greek philosophersand Scriptures which these schoolmen had were imperfect trans-lations, coming through the Mohammedan schools of it was discovered that their Scriptural arguments werebased upon these incorrect translations, the doctrines they upheldwere often challenged or denied, and Scholasticism lost prestigein the face of the New CHURCH HYMNS Church Hymns. Because of its association with thepast, the Latin or Roman language was retained in to be considered as sacred. In verse, long and shortsyllables gave place to accented and unaccented, the lines endingin rhyme. .Many great hymns were written, some of which areloved and sung as among our best yet to-day, Nos. i [3 and 243,Book of Worship, being INTKRIOR OF Photo by Rev. L. P. Young, 1912 Church Plays. The ancient Greeks were devoted to thedrama.—comedy, hut especially tragedy. The Romans had littleof either, the people being amused by games. When the Church-ained the power it put down both,—the plays, because of theirreferences to the ancient heathen gods; the games, because of thecruelty in having men and beasts struggle against each other fortheir lives. The last gladiatorial combat in the great Coliseumat Rome was interrupted by a monk, Telemachus, who rushedbetween the combatants. The spectators, angered, killed him;but Honoring the emperor (394-423), was moved by the scene,and human sacrifices were forever abolished in the Empire. Forseveral centuries the dramatic instinct was satisfied with thelengthy Church ritual, the ceremonies,
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