The reason and the effect of the consecration of churches, chapels, cemeteries, will now be apparent. The act of consecration is not the mere public setting aside of a place for a particular purpose; it is the magnetisation of the place for the benefit of all those who frequent it. For the visible and the invisible worlds are inter-related, interwoven, each with each, and those can best serve the visible by whom the energies of the invisible can be wielded.
We have reached the end of a small book on a great subject, and have only lifted a corner of the Veil that hides the Virgin of Eternal Truth from the careless eyes of men. The hem of her garment only has been seen, heavy with gold, richly dight with pearls. Yet even this, as it waves slowly, breathes out celestial fragrances--the sandal and rose-attar of fairer worlds than ours. What should be the unimaginable glory, if the Veil were lifted, and we saw the splendour of the Face of the divine Mother, and in Her arms the Child who is the very Truth? Before that Child the Seraphim ever veil their faces; who then of mortal birth may look on Him and live?
Yet since in man abides His very Self, who shall forbid him to pass within the Veil, and to see with "open face the glory of the Lord"? From the Cave to highest Heaven; such was the pathway of the Word made Flesh, and known as the Way of the Cross. Those who share the manhood share also the Divinity, and may tread where He has trodden. "What Thou art, That am I."
Answers to Prayer; 277 " Subjective Prayer; 290
_Arians of the Fourth Century_, quoted; 103
Aristotle, Effect on Mediæval Christianity; 112
Ascension, The; 231, 250 " and Solar Myth; 231 " of the Christ; 249
Atonement as one of Lesser Mysteries; 200 " Early Church on the; 195 " Calvinistic View of; 197 " Edwards on the; 197 " Flavel on the; 196 " Luther's Views on the; 196 " Dr. McLeod Campbell on the; 199 " F. D. Maurice on the; 199 " Vicarious and Substitutionary; 196
Atonement--Views of Dwight, Jeune, Jenkyn, Liddon, Owen, Stroud, and Thomson; 198 " Truth underlying the Doctrine of; 199 " Pamphlet on, quoted; 198 " _Nineteenth Century_ quoted on; 205
Baptism, A Mantram in; 350 " A Minor Form of; 349 " Belief in Death-bed; 352 " Infant; 353 " In the Early Church; 352 " In Other Religions; 348 " of Initiate; 53 " of Holy Ghost and Fire; 188 " of Jesus; 133 " of the Christ; 186 " Tertullian on; 349