Word: vestment
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...ceremonials only, on which his power once lay. He must rest his reputation now on an exposition of the best and clearest literary effort of the best thinkers. Necessarily such an appeal can have little effect on the "less-thinking" part of the population, for whom ceremonial and vestment will always be attractive. In the Protestant Church, however, exhortation and counsel, will keep their place...