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LECTURES ATSE P1gL,S.

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LECTURES ATSF. P4gL'S.
The Celtic church and brancheS-The
French or GaIIic-The old British-The
old Irish-The old Scottish.
Last evening Rev. DR.. Thomas, rector of
st. Pauls church (Episcopal) began a Sc
ries of three interesting and valuable lee
lures, upon the Celtic church and its
branches. The following is synopsis of
the first lecture of the series:
THE oFLTIo CHURCH
has four branches, the French or Gallo,
the old British, the old Irish, and the old
Scottish. The people whum the Greeks
called Kelt@ and the Latins Galate.
were tribe of Asiatics who entered Eu-
rope by the Bosphorus and the valley of
the Danube.
In their march from the East they left
the name Galatea to a province in Asia
Minor, the iuhabitrnts of which were ad-
dressed by st. Paul IN his epistle to the
Galatians.
Their route lay through northern Italy,
France, and across the channel to
t he British Isles. When the Romans first
became acquainted with them they inhab-
habited Cisalpine and Transalpine Gaul.
The Scottish from Gael is radically con-
nected with the Cali, or the Celts which
lived on either side of the Alps. The Celts,
before they were Christianized, were
horde of barbarians but little elevated
above the primeval Indians of America
They painted their bodies, wore long
hair and flowing boards. They lived by
fishing and the chase, and had tribal gov
eminent.
Caractacus, the Celtic prince of Sileuria
or South Wales, when taken to Rome TO
grace the triumph of Claudius is represent
ed to have been almost naked and painted
with the figures of animals, the hair of his
head hanging down in locks covered his
back and shoulders and the hair of his
upper lip being parted on both sides lay
upon his breast. The religion of the
Celts was the Dru1dical. The Druids were
an order of priests described by the Roman
historians with considerable minuteness.
They presided at sacrifices, were instructs
ors of the young, were judges in matters
of controversy. They took no part in war,
were not liable to pay taxes, they taught
the Immortality of the soul and its trans
migration into different bodies. They
used rites of augury and dwelt in dense
groves. They considered the oak as the
emblem of the Almighty and regarded the
mistletoe with peculiar veneration. The
speaker here described
DRUIDIoAL TEMPLE
which he saw at Keswick. The stones
which formed the mystic circle
to move them they must have had some
knowledge of the mechanical arts. Dr.
Thomas said it was not his purpose to
give the history of the Gallo church
though properly emb raced in my subject.
The church in Gaul has a history of its
own as peculiar as it is interesting. shall
confne myself to the three branches of
the Celtic church in Great Britain, and in
dealing with this subject the first ques-
tions which meet US are as interesting as
they are difficult. When did Christianity
enter the British isles and how.
THREE THEORIES.
The Pauline, the Lucian and the Iren@an
The speaker favored the last. He believes
that Ireneus who was Bishop of Lyon, A..
D. LIT sent missionaries to Britain in the
lattec part of of the second century. In
this way he accounted for certain eastern
peculiarit1es in the old British Church.
When Augustin the monk whom Gregg
ry sent to England to convert the Anglo
Saxons in the year 597, met the British
bishops in conference on the
border of Wales, he demanded three
things: First, that they should keep Easter
after the Roman fashion; second, that they
should baptize according to the Roman
ritual, and, third, that they should unite in
preaching the gospel to the Angles. Now
after what fashion did these old Britains
keep Easter, and what baptismal ritual did
they observe? It was Greek, and how
came they by this oriental reckoning and
this oriental ritual? In no way can we
explain it so we'll as to suppose it came
with the missionaries of Ireneus, who
was disciple of Polycarp, and who in
turn was disciple of st. John.
The British church after the accession of
Constantine, who himself was native of
Britain, was we'll organized. 1t had three
archbishops which took the place of the
arch famens at London and York and
Caerlem.
This we know, for at the council of
Aries, IN the year 314, these three bishops
were present. Representatives of the
British church were also at Nice and
Sardicis. After the departure of the
Romans in 40, the British Christians
waged for two hundred years a
bitter war with the heather
Sapon, retreating step by step
to the Welch borders. In one of these bat
ties, A. D., 600, Theodore fell. His stone
coffin still lies under the chancel of the
little church at Mathern in Monmouth
shire.
In the conversion of the Anglo Saxons
the Celtic church took an important part.
This will be dwelt upon in succeeding lee
lures.
Judge Blacks Posthumous Reply to jeff
Davis.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 9.-The Press to-
morrou will nrint seven columns of on