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pilgrimage for me, and did much to keep alive my faith, 

 that, despite all efforts to erect barriers of hatred be 

 tween Christians, there is, already, &quot;one fold and one 

 shepherd.&quot; 



As to my life on the Continent in general, German 

 Protestantism seemed to me simple and dignified ; but its 

 main influence upon me was exercised through its music, 

 the &quot;Gloria in Excelsis&quot; of the morning service at the 

 Berlin Cathedral being the most beautiful music by a 

 choir I had ever heard, far superior, indeed, to the fin 

 est choirs of the Sistine or Pauline chapel at Borne; 

 and a still deeper impression was made upon me by the 

 congregational singing. Often, after the first notes given 

 by the organ, I have heard a vast congregation, without 

 book of any kind, joining in the choral, King Frederick 

 William IV and his court standing and singing earnestly 

 with the rest. It was a vast uprolling storm of sound. 

 Standing in the midst of it, one understands the Lutheran 

 Eeformation. 



The most impressive Eoman Catholic ceremonies which 

 I saw in Europe were in Germany, and they were im 

 pressive because simple and reverential; those most so 

 being at Wiirzburg and Fulda, where, in the great 

 churches, large bodies of the peasantry joined simply and 

 naturally in the singing at the mass and at vespers. 



In Eussia I had the opportunity to study a religion 

 of a very different sort the Busso-Greek Church. While 

 this church no doubt contains many devoted Christian 

 men and women, it is, on the whole, a fossilized system ; 

 the vast body of the people being brought up to rely 

 mainly on fetishes of various sorts. The services were, 

 many of them, magnificent, and the music most beautiful ; 

 but it was discouraging to reflect that the condition of 

 the Eussian peasantry, ignorant, besotted, and debased, 

 was the outcome of so many centuries of complete con 

 trol by this great branch of the Christian Church. It 

 had for ages possessed the fullest power for developing 

 the intellect, the morals, and the religion of the people, 



