TRUE RELIGION.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SescrAtoe.1
SIR,—Perhaps some of your readers who are interested in Mr. E. D. Stone's letter in your last issue on "True Religion" may like to be reminded of what Coleridge said on the same subject in one of the Aphorisms (XXIII.) introductory to "Aids to Reflection"
"The outward service (Opeowefa) of ancient religion, the rites, ceremonies and ceremonial vestments of the old law' had morality for their substance. They were the letter, of which morality was the spirit; the enigma, of which morality was the meaning. But morality itself is the service and ceremonial (cultus exterior, Orprmeta) of the Christian religion. The scheme of grace and truth that became through Jesus Christ, the faith that looks down into the perfect law of liberty, has 'light for its garment' : its very robe is righteousness."
Harsion Rectory, Grantham.
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