. The Argonaut. medanPeriod, which brings us to the final ruptire,and this is followed by an account of earlyChristianity Outside the Empire, the modernGreek Church, the Russian Church, the Syrianand Armenian Churches, and the Coptic and~7Cbyssinian Churches. No higher complimentcould be paid to the work than to say that itshould be received with equal satisfaction byeach of the branches with which it deals asa statement of creed and tradition with themarks of impartial care upon every page. The section devoted to Christianity underthe Pagan Emperors, although necessarilyshort, is particularly
. The Argonaut. medanPeriod, which brings us to the final ruptire,and this is followed by an account of earlyChristianity Outside the Empire, the modernGreek Church, the Russian Church, the Syrianand Armenian Churches, and the Coptic and~7Cbyssinian Churches. No higher complimentcould be paid to the work than to say that itshould be received with equal satisfaction byeach of the branches with which it deals asa statement of creed and tradition with themarks of impartial care upon every page. The section devoted to Christianity underthe Pagan Emperors, although necessarilyshort, is particularly lucid. We have a frankadmission that the persecution of the earlychurch was due rather to its own intolerancethan to the intolerance of its enemies, andthat Christianity might have lived in amityamong the many faiths equally protected bythe rigid justice of the Roman law, but for atheological arrogance that made it was a part of a mighty religiousrevival of that day and the only permanently. Elinor Macartney Lane, Author of & Brothers. successful part, a revival suggestively com-parable with the spiritual unrest of the pres-ent day. The rupture point between the twochurches was amusingly puerile. That itshould be still a matter of irreconcilable con-tention is a mournful comment upon a per-verse theological nature that is indifferent tothe spiritual condition of the world and thatconcentrates its energies upon the differencesbetween tweedledum and tweedledee. TheEastern Church maintains that the HolySpirit proceeds from the Father alonethough through the Son, while the WesternChurch contends that He proceeds from theFather and also from the Son as a jointsource. The Latin version originally ran:Qui ex patre procedit, but the Romanchurch renders this clause: Qui ex PatreFilioque procedit. The Filioqite schism re-mains to this day as the chief ground of di-vision between the two churches, withoutany hope of reconciliation, each communityanathe
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