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Christ on it, to bring to our minds, that it was He who died for the sins of the world, and that there is no other name under heaven whereby we must be saved. Finally, we often sign ourselves with the sign of the Cross, pronouncing the words : In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost; thereby attesting our belief in the blessed Trinity, and in the Incarnation and death of our Saviour.

SCRIPTURE.

1 Cor. i. 18.-“ For the word of the Cross, to them indeed that perish, is foolishness; but to them that are saved, that is, to us, it is the power of God.—23. But we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling-block, and to the Gentiles foolishness."-Ibid. ii. 2.-“For I judged not myself to know any thing among you, but Jesus Christ, and him crucified.” -Gal. vi. 14.—“But God forbid that I should glory, save in the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ; by whom the world is crucified to me, and I to the world.”--Phil. i. 8,9.-"He humbled himself, becoming obedient unto death, even the death of the Cross. Wherefore God also hath exalted him, and hath given him a name which is above every name.

FATHERS.


CENT. II.


TERTULLIAN, L. C.-"At every step and motion, when we come in, and when we go out, whether we put on our clothes, or dress to walk abroad, in the bath, at table, at the lamp, lying or sitting, whatever be our occupation, we draw on our foreheads the sign of the Cross.-Should you ask for the Scripture authority for this and such-like practices : I