[136] See The Church Progress and Catholic World, St. Louis, Mo., July 5, 1890.
[137] Pilgrimage, etc., p. 527.
[138] Ibid., p. 535.
[139] Eusebius, Ecc. Hist., vi., x.
This reference to Eusebius should be book x., chap. iv., p. 375 of vol. i. Christian Literature Company’s publications, second series. The description given by Eusebius shows that holy water played an important part in the Christian Church at Tyre, as early as 315 A.D. See also Bingham, Antiquities, book viii., chap. iii. The church buildings described by Eusebius and Bingham contained many prominent elements of sun-worship, associated with the water-worship emblems.
[140] Rome, Pagan and Papal, by Mourant Brock, M.A., p. 107 ff. London, 1883.
[141] Matt. iii., 11.
[142] The Two Babylons, by Rev. Alexander Hislop, p. 142 ff., seventh edition, London.
[143] Numbers xxv.
[144] Judges ii., 13; iii., 7; vi., 25 ff.; x., 6; 1 Sam. vii., 4; xii., 10.