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Excerpt from The Holy Eastern Church: A Popular Outline of Its History, Doctrines, Liturgies, and Vestments; By a Priest of the English Church; The Preface
Covel and King had no practical issue, and were unknown beyond a very narrow circle of scholars, as proved to be the case, even in our own day, with the still more learned toils of Dr. Neale. It was impos sible, however, for thoughtful men to find themselves engaged in a war in defence of the Crescent against the Cross, without meditating on such a singular inversion of the Old Crusadmg spmt, and desiring to know somewhat more of that unfamiliar type of Christianity with which they were being brought face to face. Ever since that time a lively interest in all which concerns the religious usages of the Christian East has been roused amongst us, and has been fostered by the graceful and brilliant, if not very accurate or profound work of Dean Stanley.
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