826 ECCLESIASTICAL INSTITUTIONS. 



precepts already accepted, as that of developing men s judg 

 ments and sentiments in relation to those more difficult 

 questions of conduct arising from the ever-increasing com 

 plexity of social life. 



In brief, we may say that as there must ever continue our 

 relations to the* unseen and our relations to one another, it 

 appears not improbable that there will survive certain repre 

 sentatives of those who in the past were occupied with 

 observances and teachings concerning these two relations ; 

 however unlike their sacerdotal prototypes such representa 

 tives may become. 



