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Bells used for ecclesiastical purposes are comparatively speaking of modern date . They were -first constructed for this purpose under papal superintendence at Nola , a city in Campania , and they were naturally called for some time by both those names . They were " Noise , " and " Campanse . " Before this wooden rattles were in use , or notice was given , as at the mosques , by shout , or by the voice of
messengers , who were surnamed deodpo / noQ , and XaocrvaicTrjg . The Israelites were called to the ark , we know , by silver trumpets , upon which a peculiar blast was blown , which could be distinguished from the signal to prepare for a journey , or the alarm to make ready for battle . Bells , moreover , are to be worn , we are told ( Zech . xiv . ) upon horses in the second advent . With us they are placed upon horses accustomed to travel with heavy waggons for any distance ,
and they are much more frequently applied to this purpose upon the continent . They were fastened also upon the necks of other cattle , especially those wandering over the mountains , not as in the former case to inspirit them , to keep them together , and act as a band in a marching regiment , but to facilitate their recovery when twilight , or the intricacies of upland and dell , would otherwise render search well nigh hopeless .
Of the curious use to which bells have been put , maybe mentioned the fact , that Lupus , the Bishop of Orleans , who was at Sens when that town was besieged by the army of Olotharius , ordered the hells of St . Stephen ' s Church to be rung in order to frighten away the assailants . This strange artifice , which had the desired effect , was
tried in the year 1610 . About nine hundred bells are said to have been used to drive away thunder and lightning , though we should rather think them to have been rung with the view of calling persons to the church , or inciting them to pray earnestly in their own homes in the spirit , if not in the words of the beautiful Church of England
Litany" From lightning and tempest , Good Lord , deliver us . " The passing bell was rung in the same way to supplicate the prayers of the faithful in behalf of the parting soul still struggling with the mortal body . This knell is beautifully described by Scott in the concluding lines of the " Convent : " — -
u Slow o er the midnight wave it swung , Northumbrian rocks in answer rung ; To Warkworth cell the echoes rolFd , His beads the wakeful hermit told , The Bamborough peasant raised his head , But slept ere half a prayer he said ; So far was heard the mighty knell , The stag sprung up on Cheviot Fell , Spread his broad nostril to the wind , Listed before , aside , behind , Then couched him down beside the hind , And quaked among the mountain fern , To hear that sound , ho dull and ' Btern . "
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Bells used for ecclesiastical purposes are comparatively speaking of modern date . They were -first constructed for this purpose under papal superintendence at Nola , a city in Campania , and they were naturally called for some time by both those names . They were " Noise , " and " Campanse . " Before this wooden rattles were in use , or notice was given , as at the mosques , by shout , or by the voice of
messengers , who were surnamed deodpo / noQ , and XaocrvaicTrjg . The Israelites were called to the ark , we know , by silver trumpets , upon which a peculiar blast was blown , which could be distinguished from the signal to prepare for a journey , or the alarm to make ready for battle . Bells , moreover , are to be worn , we are told ( Zech . xiv . ) upon horses in the second advent . With us they are placed upon horses accustomed to travel with heavy waggons for any distance ,
and they are much more frequently applied to this purpose upon the continent . They were fastened also upon the necks of other cattle , especially those wandering over the mountains , not as in the former case to inspirit them , to keep them together , and act as a band in a marching regiment , but to facilitate their recovery when twilight , or the intricacies of upland and dell , would otherwise render search well nigh hopeless .
Of the curious use to which bells have been put , maybe mentioned the fact , that Lupus , the Bishop of Orleans , who was at Sens when that town was besieged by the army of Olotharius , ordered the hells of St . Stephen ' s Church to be rung in order to frighten away the assailants . This strange artifice , which had the desired effect , was
tried in the year 1610 . About nine hundred bells are said to have been used to drive away thunder and lightning , though we should rather think them to have been rung with the view of calling persons to the church , or inciting them to pray earnestly in their own homes in the spirit , if not in the words of the beautiful Church of England
Litany" From lightning and tempest , Good Lord , deliver us . " The passing bell was rung in the same way to supplicate the prayers of the faithful in behalf of the parting soul still struggling with the mortal body . This knell is beautifully described by Scott in the concluding lines of the " Convent : " — -
u Slow o er the midnight wave it swung , Northumbrian rocks in answer rung ; To Warkworth cell the echoes rolFd , His beads the wakeful hermit told , The Bamborough peasant raised his head , But slept ere half a prayer he said ; So far was heard the mighty knell , The stag sprung up on Cheviot Fell , Spread his broad nostril to the wind , Listed before , aside , behind , Then couched him down beside the hind , And quaked among the mountain fern , To hear that sound , ho dull and ' Btern . "