we very likely should not have the hibtones of many saints, martyrs sectarian founders and missionaries, and the records of miracles as remarkable as any of those recorded m ancient scriptures The ordeals suffered by the faithful and their mixed experiences of sin and redemption are a great source of consolation as well as of inspiration in our own troubled times One of the hardest decisions tor the C E T was not merely to establish the contents of their Bible but to agree upon a title, one that would be brief yet broadly descriptive, one that would reflect the ecumenical spirit without appearing narrowly exclusive In early fragments of his memoirs, Bertoh refers to it as the Koranjiyana Zenchristian Scriptures, or as the Zenchnstian Navakoran, but after the fourth year it seems to be settled in his mind, at least, that Orange Catholic Bible was to be the name We must suppose that a day or a week was given over to settling what may have become a matter of embarrassing dispute The terms ' orange" and "catholic' do, however seem to have estab hshcd themselves as reflecting the more innovative dnd rational as opposed to the more conservative and traditional schools of thought, sometimes being used quite lightly, if we may judge by odd remarks of Bertoh- what a delightfully pompous catholic statement, ' "Catholic to a See," "utterly Orange is the only word to describe that nonsense, for an Orange, that little acolyte of Bruin s is quite a peach," ' all of those oranges are bananas"-remarks not at all clear to us now, but some were clearly meant as witti cisms The origin of the term Orange as applied to a religious sectanan is now obscure but its religious significance is so overwhelming nowadays that few remember it as the ancient name of a fruit now called portyguls The O C Bible Liturgical Manual was a natural outgrowth of the practice faithfully observed by the C E T of attending morning and evening services every day according to the tradition of a different faith On Wednes- ORANGE CATHOLIC BIBLE 408 ORANGE CATHOLIC BIBLE days, which were defined as Honorary Sabbaths for the duration of the exercise, delegates were allowed to worship as they chose in the mornings, but m the evenings all attended an ecumenical service, for which an ever-changing committee was responsible The experience of being subjected to some of the more elaborate and irksome liturgies and rituals ("They did everything except sacrifice virgins" was Bertoh's disgusted comment on a nte that is fortunately nameless), together with the difficulty of administering some of them, brought home to many of the delegates the advantages of "harmonizing" the best practices The Liturgical Manual, then, while faithfully recording the various peculiar modes of worship practiced by the faiths represented in the C E T, also supplies several model ecumenical liturgies and endorses those, whether peculiar or ecumenical, considered most suitable for constituting a complete progra