Excerpt from Sketches of the Rites and Customs: Of the Greco-Russian Church Looking back into the far past, we see that the germs of separation were to be found from the first foundation of the Church. Eastern and Western, Greek and Latin, differed in constitution and prejudices as well as in language, and tradition and custom necessarily diverged the more as time went on. The sense of the paramount importance of unity, together with the large-minded candour of the primitive Fathers, prevented any actual schism from taking place. The dispute respecting the time of keeping Easter was, as they perceived, no worthy cause for casting off the brethren whose hope was in the same Resurrection and while essentials remained the same, unchanged, unbroken, they could perceive that small modifica tions of ceremonies to suit climate, character, or circumstance, were the very signs of the Catholicity of the Church in distinction to the exclusive Jewish ritual. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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