46 PROFESSOR SIR W. M. RAMSAY^ D.C.L., ON LYCAONIA. 



would be interesting if Professor Ramsay could trace the connection 

 l^etween Roman life and Church life, and especially the remarkable 

 passage in the " 8iSa)(7/, 7} t'jfxepa, rr) KvpcaK-q tou Kvpiov,^' the day 

 •of the Curia of the Lord. 



Professor Sir W. M. Ramsay said that he took the view that the 

 ■church communities had been in the habit of looking upon them- 

 •selves as cities even in the first century. For instance, the letter to 

 the seven churches is the letter to the seven cities. The Christians 

 in Thyatira were looked upon as being the true city of Thyatira. 

 'This idea of the Church and the city as one doubtless had a strong 

 •and abiding influence on both Eastern and Western Christianity. 



Professor Langhorne Orchard thought Sir W. Ramsay would 

 concur that the worship of the Mother-goddess went back earlier 

 than Ephesus. 



This was not the first time they had been given the pleasure of 

 a paper by Sir William, and they hoped it would not be the last. 

 •One and all they thanked him. He had led them, as personally- 

 -conducted tourists, to far-off Anatolia, and down the centuries to 

 that Byzantine period commonly so little known. The paper 

 ■especially emphasised two facts ; the one was the importance of 

 cultivating in a people the love of liberty, of freedom, the other was 

 that religion is the supreme factor in civic and communal life. 

 According to the purity of the religion and the value attached to it, 

 is the purity and prosperity of the people's life; if the religion 

 •decay, that life will decay. It were well to bear this in mind in 

 face of the present conflict of opinion in regard to national 

 •education. Education without religion is a maimed and truncated 

 thing. It is worse. To educate the head without educating the 

 iheart ; to neglect a child's character while fostering his ability ; is 

 to train him to be a curse to the country which has shirked its 

 responsibility and has betrayed its trust. 



