The History of Oratory From the Age of Pericles to the Present Time
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. How can ye bring help to the heaven and stars who are not able to protect yourselves on the earth? I Digitized by Google 1 86 THE HISTORY OF ORATORY. praise you not, since, being deceived by the devil, ye are devoted in no small degree to pagan errors. And whence is this except from the pagans, whose companj' ye love and whose customs ye imitate? I have often forbidden you to consort with them, or to take part in their abominable feasts; but avarice hinders you from obeying me. Ye love money ...and are not afraid of hell. . . . * For this cause many are weak and sickly among you and many sleep.* " The plainness of this discourse is a revelation of the state of mingled religion and superstition which pre- vailed in the half-barbarian empire of the Franks in the ninth century. Rabanus' sermons have one quality which would commend them to this hurried and impa- tient age — they are short. But a contemporary. Otto, of Verceil, surpasses him in this respect. His sermons oc- cupy ten or twelve minutes in delivery, but not satisfied with such brevity he sometimes appends a shorter form and adds, " the last sermon abbreviated, lest the common people should be disgusted." Another prevailing feature of the preaching of that age is illustrated by Peter Damiani, Cardinal of Ostia.
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