human
Most High . The priest is surrounded by the halo of Deity. The power that holds the keys of heaven and of hell becomes the object of reverence and of awe. Far more lofty than any title bestowed by earthly monarch is that patent of nobility straight from the hand of the
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King of kings , which seems to give to the mortal something of the authority of the immortal, to crown the head of the priest with the diadem which belongs to those who are
human
. Swayed by these feelings, the position of a clergyman's wife seems second only to that of the nun, and has therefore a wonderful attractiveness, an attractiveness in which the particular clergyman affected plays a very subordinate part; it is the
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, the nearness to
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, the consecration involved, which seem to make the wife a nearer worshipper than those who do not partake in the immediate