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and bind their hearts together, as melodies also do, are 

 enriched by associations so that every word is dear. The 

 authorised version of the Bible is the highest 

 example, grand in itself, but doubly potent in what 

 has been gathered into it. This has been very 

 beautifully expressed by Canon Faber, who followed 

 Cardinal Newman in leaving the Communion of the 

 English Church for that of the Church of Eome : — 

 '* Who will not say that the uncommon beauty and 

 marvellous EngHsh of the Protestant Bible is not 

 one of the great strongholds of heresy in this country ? 

 It Hves on the ear like the music that can never be 

 forgotten, like the sound of church bells, which the 

 convert hardly knows how he can forego. Its 

 felicities often seem to be almost things rather than 

 mere words. It is part of the national mind, and the 

 anchor of national seriousness. The memory of the 

 dead passes into it. The potent traditions of childhood 

 are stereotyped in its verses. The power of all the 

 griefs and trials of a man is hidden beneath its words. 

 It is the representation of his best moments, and all 

 that there has been about him of soft and gentle and 

 pure and penitent and good speaks to him forever out 

 of his English Bible." 



And again as to Art, how well Emerson understood 

 its role as evolutionary registration : — 



" Let statue, picture, park and hall, 

 Ballad, flag, and festival, 

 The past restore, the day adorn. 

 And make to-morrow a new morn. 

 So shall the drudge in dusty frock 

 Spy behind the city clock 



