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The Gray Brethren and Other Fragments in Prose and Verse by Michael Fairless
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inherited mysticism, ordered contemplation, and spiritual vision;
we need them for ourselves. The mother they have left yearns for
them, and with all her faults--faults the greater for their
absence--and with the blinded eyes of their recognition, she is
their mother still. "What advantage then hath the Jew?" asked St
Paul, and answered in the same breath--"Much every way, chiefly
because that unto them were committed the oracles of God." What
advantage then has the Churchman? is the oft repeated question
today; and the answer is still the answer of St Paul.

The Incarnation is the sum of all the Sacraments, the crown of the
material revelation of God to man, the greatest of outward and
visible signs, "that which we have heard, which we have seen with
our eyes, which we have looked upon and our hands have handled of
the word of life." A strange beginning truly, to usher in a purely
spiritual dispensation; but beautifully fulfilled in the taking up
of the earthly into the heavenly--Bread and Wine, the natural
fruits of the earth, sanctified by man's toil, a sufficiency for
his needs; and instinct with Divine life through the operation of
the Holy Ghost.


"In the sweat of thy face thou shalt eat bread."

"Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood ye
have no life in you"

"And the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations."


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