Communion Tokens Of The Church Of Scotland 19th And 20th Centuries

Author : Alexander J. S. Brook
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780266954644
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (546 download)

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Download or read book Communion Tokens of the Established Church of Scotland written by Alexander J. S. Brook and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-29 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Communion Tokens of the Established Church of Scotland: Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries There was no more familiar object in Scotland from the Reformation down to half a century ago than the Communion token, but its origin cannot be attributed to Scotland, nor was it a post-reformation institution. The antiquity and universality of the token are unquestionable. From very early times it is probable that a token, or something akin to it, was used in all oath-bound secret societies. They will be found to have been used by the Greeks and Romans, whose tesserae were freely utilised for identifying those who had been initiated into the Eleusinian and other kindred mysteries, and in this manner the way was easily paved for their introduction into the Christian Church, where they were used for the purpose of excluding the uninitiated and preventing the entrance of spies into the religious gatherings which were only open to the select few. After the persecution ceased to which, in a measure, their use may be attributed, they would naturally continue to be used to distinguish between those who had a right to be present at meetings and those who had not. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.