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one who looks on all churches as God's House without 

 feeling its effect, and recognising its peculiar fitness 

 in spite of the want of association for him in that 

 cloud of incense; and he may even think that he 

 has been wrongfully deprived of something desirable 

 and of value in his own church service when he 

 remembers his Bible, which is perhaps his fetish, and 

 the words of the Being he worships, when He pro- 

 claimed through the mouth of His prophets that from 

 the rising of the sun to its going down incense would 

 ascend to Him, morning and evening, in all places. 



Why then is incense not used in the Anglican 

 Church, which took its ritual from the church before 

 it ? Nobody knows. The histories only tell us that 

 it began to fall into disuse in the reign of Edward VI. 



There I will leave the subject, which I confess 

 is rather an out-of-the-way one to bring into a 

 book concerning the senses of man and animals 

 by a field naturalist. 



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