. Our Sunday book of reading and pictures . - to heaven. The Gothic cathedral remains an imperishable and majestic monument ofhierarchical wealth, power, devotion ; it can hardly be absolutely called self-sacrifice, for if built for the honour of God and of the Redeemer, it was honour,. it was almost worship, shared in by the high ecclesiastic. That, however, hasalmost passed away ; God, as it were, now vindicates to Himself His own. Thecathedral has been described as a vast book in stone, a book which taughtby symbolic language, partly plain and obvious to the simpler man, partlyshrouded in n
. Our Sunday book of reading and pictures . - to heaven. The Gothic cathedral remains an imperishable and majestic monument ofhierarchical wealth, power, devotion ; it can hardly be absolutely called self-sacrifice, for if built for the honour of God and of the Redeemer, it was honour,. it was almost worship, shared in by the high ecclesiastic. That, however, hasalmost passed away ; God, as it were, now vindicates to Himself His own. Thecathedral has been described as a vast book in stone, a book which taughtby symbolic language, partly plain and obvious to the simpler man, partlyshrouded in not less attractive mystery. It was at once strikingly significantand inexhaustible; bewildering, feeding at once and stimulating profoundmeditation. Even its height, its vastness, might appear to suggest the Incon-ceivable, the Incomprehensible in the Godhead, to symbolize the infinity, theincalculable grandeur and majesty of the divine works ; the mind felt humbleunder its shadow as before an awful presence. Its form and distribution was a GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE. confession of faith ; it typified the creed. Everywhere was the mystic number ;the Trinity was proclaimed by the nave and the aisles (multiplied sometimes,as at Bourges and elsewhere, to the other sacred number, seven), t
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