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15 through which we discern spiritual objects in their beauty and glory. God finds us in our ignorance - untaught, and like children unable to understand, except as He pictures to us his purposes in types and symbols. It was in this manner that He taught the Jews; and because they were ignorant, He gave to them a religion of ceremonies. They understand the atonement, but it was through the Lamb slain. They were taught the unity of the God-head, but it was through the idea of one temple, our alter of sacrifice and our high priest. They knew that God was omnipresent, but this was represented to them through the ark of the covenant, which was the symbol of His presence. In our own day, after the fulfillment of these types. God has given to us the rites of baptism and the Lords supper, as symbols of the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ. This view is unclear true ritualism. But upon much of modern ceremony unclear has been written