"Far from it," answered Charles; "but let those who confine their music to Gregorians put up crucifixes in the highways. Each is the representative of a particular place or time."
"That's what I say of our good friend's short coat and long cassock," said Campbell; "it is a confusion of different times, ancient and modern."
"Or of different ideas," said Charles, "the cassock Catholic, the coat Protestant."
"The reverse," said Bateman; "the cassock is old Hooker's Anglican habit: the coat comes from Catholic France."
"Anyhow, it is what Mr. Reding calls a mixture of ideas," said Campbell; "and that's the difficulty I find in uniting Gothic and Gregorians."
"Oh, pardon me," said Bateman, "they are one idea; they are both eminently Catholic."
"You can't be more Catholic than Rome, I suppose," said Campbell; "yet there's no Gothic there."
"Rome is a peculiar place," said Bateman; "besides, my dear friend, if we do but consider that Rome has corrupted the pure apostolic doctrine, can we wonder that it should have a corrupt architecture?"
"Why, then, go to Rome for Gregorians?" said Campbell; "I suspect they are called after Gregory I. Bishop of Rome, whom Protestants consider the first specimen of Antichrist."
"It's nothing to us what Protestants think," answered Bateman.