BULLER.
These, sir, are surely three powerful elements of a Ritual Service.
NORTH.
Throughout, the People divide, the service with the Minister. They have in it their own personal function.
BULLER.
Then the Homily, sir.
NORTH.
Ay, the Homily, which, one might say, interprets between Sunday and the Week—fixes the holiness of the Day in precepts, doctrines, reflections, which may be carried home to guide and nourish.
BULLER.
Altogether, sir, it seems a meet work of worshippers met in their Christian Land, upon the day of rest and aspiration. The Scottish worship might seem to remember the flame and the sword. The persecuted Iconoclasts of two centuries ago, live in their descendants.