SAINTS, AND THEIR BODIES 3 
ventional standard, replied, “ Then they will fly 
the better.” Saints have been flying to heaven, 
for the same reason, ever since, — and have com- 
monly flown young. 
Indeed, the earlier some such saints cast off 
their bodies the better, they make so little use 
of them. Chittagutta, the Buddhist recluse, 
dwelt in a cave in Ceylon. His devout visitors 
one day remarked on the miraculous beauty of 
the legendary paintings, representing scenes 
from the life of Buddha, which adorned the 
walls, The holy man informed them that, dur- 
ing his sixty years’ residence in the cave, he had 
been too much absorbed in meditation to notice 
the existence of the paintings, but he would 
take their word for it. And in this non-inter- 
course with the visible world there has been an 
apostolical succession, extending from Chitta- 
guttadown to the Andover divinity student who 
refused to join his companions in their admir- 
ing gaze on that wonderful autumnal landscape 
which spreads itself before the Seminary Hill 
in October; but marched back into the library, 
ejaculating, “ Lord, turn thou mine eyes from 
beholding vanity !” 
It is to be reluctantly recorded, in fact, that 
the Protestant saints have not ordinarily had 
much to boast of, in physical stamina, as com- 
pared with the Roman Catholic. They have not 
