The friars and how they came to England;

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INTRODUCTORY SQ 69Wages in coin or End, lived in bria eo inges mud huis, Was reatly a matter of indissere e to essentiat Franciscan Ese. What did essentialty conoem the Friar Was that hemust M one With the poor in the generalconditions of their povere a matter offare, the messissVal pemant seldom Sin money;hs Was pari sor his labour in the inings hemost need in sor his maintenanoe, and his λω, clathing, and dWelling Were not inin asine mox in modem England are accustomedio. Os a coarser, and in some respecta healthier quali , it may be do ted Whether mediaevia requirements Would be adequale in mest thestrata os present conditions of lde. But M. Francis accepted sor himself and his immediate discipies the tardinips of the mediaevalmon Ther ore he sorbads ins use of moneyto his Friare, gaus them the mane garments

of the Umbrian Masant, and himseli proseraedio sive in the md huts of the dv. md theconditions of the mediaevia pinsanisy been likethose of the present W hing clam, - inould have Aund the economio conditions os ins

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condulans any more than under the messissVal;

he Would have sorbidden his Friam to hesdoapital of any fore as in disaeeord with that absolute trusi in Providenoe which he held tobe the privilege of the mor: he Would alio

in the fame Way as it is used by the p r. Ηe Would have insisted upon mor and modest ellings, but not upon mud huis. Henoe atine present time tho Friam ars permittin inmine use of money in the extent indicatin, but they are stili sorbidden to amam capitalor adcumulate proper . Such permission be-longs to the exigendies os a true deVeloment, and is not ut ali opposed to the proper Francisoan illa. On the other hand, a permission

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in one age is not alWays Auffcient in another. Changes of climate and of the human temperament iraeis, and other externat conditions OVerinita men have litile contres, demand a h herstandata os economio living than Was suffcient for oster times. Changes suin m these in noWay t e stom the ideat, in long as they are necessary ' sor the living of a human Ese,' and in as sar as they continue to exhibit that Wantos luxury or parsimony of minore Which belangsto the original type. G tine an actuat instanceos a genuine deVel ment, true in the principies of St. Francis, and yet to the superficiat Semer apparently in contradiction. have remarhed the Stant did nos Min his Friam to have large taurches of their -n, since he

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running es e to the walis of the toWn re thespectat and tamen spodi of the Franciscan missiona . In ali instances the mveru of thelabundings corresponded With those of the su

cluded. . . . Thela meias corresponded Min the

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the statements of Some of the commissionem concerning Some of the houses. nus at Bri

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long bes e the dissolution, the Friare Were Sopo that they hin to seli their books to obtain bread.' Thus me ses that the essentiat character of Vorty Was not lost mingst the Friars, oen at the period When the spiritual efffeten of the Order feems to have been at ita loWeste , and When undo tedly many communities silled to retain the simplici of their Rule. Ina W d, the genuine Franciscan spirit stili prevassed, even in the micit os relaxation. None