The question very early arose, whether Christianity should be a formal and ritualistic religion,a religion of ablutions and purifications, of distinctions between ceremonially pure and impure things,or, rather, a religion of the spirit; whether it should be a sect or a universal religion.

They were wedded, ceremonially dined as befitted the occasion, and departed upon their hypothetical honeymoon, surreptitiously abbreviated from an extravagant swing over half of North America to seventy miles by rail and twenty by water,and a month of blissful seclusion, which suited those two far better than any amount of Pullman touring, besides leaving them money in pocket.

Mr. Mellasys was also considered a very unscrupulous person in financial transactions,indeed, what would be named in some communities a swindler; and I have heard it whispered that the estimable, but somewhat obese and drowsy person who passed as his wife was not a wife, ceremonially speaking.

But I cannot understand why any one should bother about a ceremonial except ceremonially.

Because of its strong emphasis on the holiness of Jehovah and on the necessity that he be worshipped by a people both ceremonially and morally holy, it is now commonly designated as the Holiness Code.

Then they go ceremonially pure into the dining room, as if into a temple.

On the east, however, there was one large gate, through which those of us who were ceremonially pure could enter with our wives.

At its birth there is no assembly of the neighbours; its head is not ceremonially shaved and there is no narta ceremony.

Battle, it seemed to me, was considered by him as a high, religious service, which he performed ceremonially.

Everything which was touched by her hands during this period was deemed ceremonially unclean.

After the fire has thus been ceremonially kindled, the women and girls of all the families in the village clean out their houses.

When we remember that Beltane Eve or the Eve of May Day (Walpurgis Night) is the great witching time of the year throughout Europe, we may surmise that wherever bonfires have been ceremonially kindled on that day it has been done simply as a precaution against witchcraft; indeed this motive is expressly alleged not only in Scotland, but in Wales, the Isle of Man, and many parts of Central Europe.

Among the Hopi (Moqui) Indians of Walpi, another pueblo village of this region, new fire is ceremonially kindled by friction in November.

The reasons for extinguishing fires ceremonially appear to vary with the occasion.

No information could be got from him; but Rrisa's eyes brightened with unholy joy at sight of the old man ceremonially tearing his burnous and sifting sand on his gray head.

That blood shed according to the law did cleanse ceremonially, but it is only the blood of Jesus, typified by that, which cleanseth really; so that we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all, Heb.