Jeremiah finds a modern parallel in Milton. Never
was genius more intensely artistic, more responsive to
beauty ahke in form and sound ; no one has done more
to enrich and ennoble our religious phraseology ; and
yet, in the great controversy of his age, he ranges
himself, without hesitation, and in the interests of
Freedom and Spirituality, on the side of. Purism.^
The same great question, as to the relation of the ritual
to the ethical, is still active, underljdng the Problem
of Faith and Freedom as it presses for solution, with
remarkable insistence and vitality, on the mind of the
Church to-day."

Chap. VI n. Having provided the needful setting,
and created the ecclesiastical atmosphere he desired,
the Editor presents a series of prophetic utterances
deaUng with the moral deterioration and impending
judgment of the people. The idea of a Temple-address

' See a characteristic passage at the beginning of the
treatise on Religious Reformation in England ; too long to be
quoted here.
' See Professor Oman's Ker Lectures, pp. 18, 19.
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scarcely influences the sequel, save through an occasional
insertion, such as chap, ix, 12-16.
