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CLASSICAL TOUR
Ch. V.
spread it over the Christian w< rl 1. If in re-
viving this part of primitive disci) li ic, he would
also exercise the power which the council of
Trent has entrusted to him, and would admit, as
I have hinted above, the laity to the cup (so
solemn and impressive a part of the sacred rite)
and if at the same time he would communicate
to every nation the comfort of singing the praises
of God in their own language, he would render
to the church of Christ a most important and
ever memorable service *.
I would not be understood as meaning by this
latter observation to censure the use of ancient
idioms in the liturgy, or to recommend in toto
the introduction of modern dialects. The two
o’reat ancient languages which contain not only
the principles and models of science and litera-
ture, but what is still more valuable, the very
title-deeds and proofs of divine revelation, owe
their existence to the liturgies of the Greek and
Latin churches, and however widely diffused
they may appear to be at present, it is difficult to
say whether in the course of countless ages per-
haps still to come, they may not again be indebted
to the same means for their continuation. A
* Cone. Trid. Sess. xxii,
CLASSICAL TOUR
Ch. V.
spread it over the Christian w< rl 1. If in re-
viving this part of primitive disci) li ic, he would
also exercise the power which the council of
Trent has entrusted to him, and would admit, as
I have hinted above, the laity to the cup (so
solemn and impressive a part of the sacred rite)
and if at the same time he would communicate
to every nation the comfort of singing the praises
of God in their own language, he would render
to the church of Christ a most important and
ever memorable service *.
I would not be understood as meaning by this
latter observation to censure the use of ancient
idioms in the liturgy, or to recommend in toto
the introduction of modern dialects. The two
o’reat ancient languages which contain not only
the principles and models of science and litera-
ture, but what is still more valuable, the very
title-deeds and proofs of divine revelation, owe
their existence to the liturgies of the Greek and
Latin churches, and however widely diffused
they may appear to be at present, it is difficult to
say whether in the course of countless ages per-
haps still to come, they may not again be indebted
to the same means for their continuation. A
* Cone. Trid. Sess. xxii,