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362 lost the topmost branch; they accept the Deuterocanonical books of Scripture as equal to the others, they believe in and use the same seven Sacraments as we do, they honour and pray to Saints, have a great cult of holy pictures and relics, and look with unbounded reverence towards the all-holy Mother of God. Their sumptuous ritual, gorgeous vestments and elaborate ceremonies, their blessings and sacramentals, all make their Church seem what she so easily might once more become—the honoured sister of the great Latin Patriarchate. It is only when one examines the niceties of theology that one finds four or five points in which they are heretics, and of these most are doubtful. Both sides in this quarrel recognize that the real issue is one rather of schism than of heresy. Whereas the Protestant Reformation produced schisms because of its heresies, the issue between East and West has produced some heresies because of the schism. The chief points we have to consider are the questions of the Church and Primacy, of the Filioque, Transubstantiation and the Epiklesis, Purgatory, and the Immaculate Conception. But first we must see in what books they have declared their faith.

The Orthodox faith is contained first of all in the Apostles' Creed and in the Nicene Creed (of course without the Filioque). Then in the decrees of the seven councils that they acknowledge as œcumenical, that is the first seven. They insist very much