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which they have been to the church The music 

 strikes up, expressive of the harmony of the 

 heavenly chorus ; and whichever way we turn, 

 whether to the crypt, the font, the paintings, the 

 monuments, or the ornaments, we find a rich dis- 

 play of salutary emblems of our future happiness. 

 Thus the stupendous cathedrals, of which all 

 Christendom seems proud, all built by Catholics, 

 and for our service alone, afford a wonderful 

 contrast to the ordinary and mean buildino-s 

 which heresy has erected for its service, and 

 which puritanical hypocrisy has deprived of every 

 ornament of an inspiring character. The exterior 

 beauty of our religion is as striking as its interior 

 holiness. Its external ornaments are as symmetri 

 cal, as its doctrines are consistent; — its music as 

 harmonious, as its followers are concordant. To 

 all these may be contrasted the outside ugliness 

 and the internal disunion of sectarianism, wherein 

 you will find fifty itinerant preachers, all mutually 

 accusing each other of schism and heresy, but 

 all dull and spiritless. Again, when the externals 

 of any religion are discarded, the internal con- 

 solations are soon weakened : — such is the nature 

 of man and his imperfections. As the loss of 

 any one great doctrine, the Real Presence for 

 example, generally suggests the suspicion that 

 other doctrines in connection with it, as the 

 Resurrection, may also be false, and produces a 



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