Many Voices [by M Tollemache]

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ' Detraction is a pernicious thing, an. inconstant evil spirit, that never continues in peace, but is always in discord.' Hermas is supposed by some authorities to have been the Hermas mentioned in St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans (ch. xvi. 14). His writings are quoted by St. Irenaeus, Clement of...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ' Detraction is a pernicious thing, an. inconstant evil spirit, that never continues in peace, but is always in discord.' Hermas is supposed by some authorities to have been the Hermas mentioned in St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans (ch. xvi. 14). His writings are quoted by St. Irenaeus, Clement of Alexandria, and Origen as of high authority in the Church, and are commended by St . Athanasius sa 'useful.' Hermas is said to have been a Greek by birth, and to have been brought in his childhood to Italy and sold as a slave. He belonged to the Church in Rome when Clement was Bishop. His book 'The Shepherd' is a curious allegory, now of little account, but regarded at one time as little less than inspired. It has been called by a great writer of our own days ' the Pilgrim's Progress of the Church of the second century.'l In the early Church it was a favourite book of devotion, and still holds a place among the writings of ' the Apostolic Fathers, ' who, however, according to a modern critic, ' were not great writers, but great characters.'2 ST. IGNATIUS. SURNAMED THEOPHORUS. M. 115. 'Endeavour to preserve unity, than which nothing is more precious. Bear with all men even as the Lord with thee. Pray without ceasing.; ask for more understanding than what thou already hast. Be watchful, having thy spirit always awake. Speak to every one according as Godshall enable thee. Bear the infirmities of all as a perfect combatant . Where the labour is great, the gain is the more. If thou lovest only the good disciples, what thank is it ? But rather do thou subject to thee the froward by meekness. 1 Dean Stanley. 2 M. de Pressense. ' Every wound is not healed with the same plaister. If the accessions of the disease be vehement, mollify them with soft remedies; be in all thin...