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320 The Faith of Our Fathers They don our vestments, they swing our censer, erect altars in their churches and adorn them with flowers and candle-sticks. These Ritualists are, however, easily discerned from the true Priest. Should one of them ever appear before the Father of the faithful in these ill-fitting robes the venerable Pontiff would exclaim, with the Patriarch of old: "The voice indeed is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau." I feel the garment of the Priest, but I hear the voice of the parson. God grant that, as our misguided brothers have assumed our sacerdotal garments, they may adopt our faith, that their speech may conform to their dress. Then, having laid aside their earthly stoles, may they deserve, like all faithful Priests, to be seen [338] "standing before the throne, and in sight of the Lamb, with white stoles and palms in their hands, ... saying: 'Salvation to our God, who sitteth upon the throne, and to the Lamb.' "434 [339] 434 Apoc. vii. 9, 10.

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