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the hundreds of Church Lectionaries, belonging to practically all 

 the Churches, Eastern and Western, bear eloquent witness. The 

 little pictures were memory signs of great significance of the great 

 spiritual truths by which they lived and died. 



The Lecture had been listened to throughout with the greatest 

 attention and interest, and at its close, after the remarks of the 

 Chairman and of Mr. Gregory, there was no disposition on the part 

 of the audience to enter into any critical discussion, but a somewhat 

 informal conversation ensued. In its course, Professor Langhorne 

 Orchard pointed out that the symbol of the Cross did not appear in 

 the inscriptions until after the second century. Archdeacon 

 Beresford Potter made the comment that it seemed to him 

 natural that the early Eoman Christians should avoid the mention 

 of the Cross. To them, it was the symbol of heathen cruelty and 

 of the loss of life of One Who, to them, was above all other. 



The thanks of the Meeting were returned to the Lecturer by 

 acclamation, and the Meeting adjourned at 6.0 p.m. 



