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Show MEDIAEVAL IIIEACHINCI. Sermons, Though reserved in Latin, Were Delivered lr tho Vernacular. Tho Purltani were not ns has been supposed sup-posed tho Inventors of eiieniorury ! reaching, the practkc was distinctly modi mo-di levil nnd was stopped about tho time of rilsalieth As to the languige wo meet wllh difficulties to determine which were In Uitln and whlih In tho countless Maleets of tho dl, which so continuous fluctuated that It Is a mailer of won-d.r won-d.r how the inUslonarli could hi mans cases, havo done the work th. are credited cred-ited with mill us wo iresuiiioM on the p.irt or the masses a much kreiler knowl-edge- of I.slln than Is commonlv supposed Jhls. however, would seem to un probl-hie probl-hie nmnel that the ' sermoms ad I'opu-lum' I'opu-lum' of the eighth, ninth and tenth centuries cen-turies were general!) delivered In the ver naeulor und eMsiniiorurv an I nflerward iransiiinl Into Litln either 1 the orator limine ir or some hearer VVhat will strike the average mm Oath-nlle Oath-nlle as so vers strange in vhw of the itirrent opinion to tho opposite Is the (ilniost marvelous grusp or scripture of tho tsplcal mediaeval preacher whether we innsliler the numler of quotations Ihelr varletv or the Interpientlon of the same Ncalo estimates as to to l tho la tie tielween a mediaeval ermon and that of a modiru dlvlut as regard the number num-ber of texts rUKtomiirtlv. cited I ho contrast con-trast Is still t,rcaler when we turn to Iho manner of rltatl n the mediaeval pnaeh-ir pnaeh-ir riling naturallj ra llj logUallv as om saturated with scripture from Its being h own dallv srlrllisl food the molcrn III at inn ticking ini quotation hern and there otun use slv nlleelh. r wllh the nlr of a man wh fi-els ither shaky when treating an uufimlllar subject the onocvldentl) read the scilptures the other oth-er onls concord inc. and Index Tho Fccond prominent clnractnlstle of medlaoval i rea hlng was Us practical common sense haricter tspeclillj when appealing to the mum Their ponulirl-t ponulirl-t with tho litter would lio sufilclcnt proof of this assertion oven if we hid not Iho sermons thtnmelv to JudRO by Of froutque oo Neultls a cilebruled preacher of the thlrlienlli enlury we ale told In a tonlimior irj thut ho excited lo sun ixtnnt all eople not onl of th lowir order but Kings and I'lluns i will l hi few and simple words iliac uolio dare opposa him People rushel hi irnuU from dlfferiiit countries to l.ar lilm Those vv ho w ro sb!e to teai and (reserve (re-serve the smallest frigment of his dross esteemed themselves liapi s so mile li s In fact that 10 s e Ids own v.an'rotK. flioue ttK extensive at hesti the gocd nan made the sign of tho cross over another man whose lothes the iinpletmm Uiti. I tore to rags as relics of the lenedle-tton lenedle-tton -Oathollc W orld |