Untitled - Rore Sanctifica

The Exigency of Truth. 29
trials to endure from hauteur, unlovingness,
corruption and sin. These are the ingredients
with which all our good things in this world
are mixed up, and the Church is not exempt
from them. But at any rate, by bearing and
forbearing, we are* undergoing a necessary
discipline for the enjoyment of the perfect rest
and union hereafter, which are only to be
found in the presence of ALMIGHTY GOD
Himself. And this reflection may nerve us for
the experiments.
Admitting, then, to the full the Primacy of
Home, and not denying that we might even
concede her Supremacy on well denned grounds,
so as to obviate past abuses, it may be asked in
what position do you put divided Churches?
Now surely the exigency of Truth does demand
a recognition o of facts. Neither the East nor
England is as the Nestorians or Jacobites.
According to all the theories of Excommunica
tion, the Greek Church and our own ought to
have withered away like the
under our LORD S malediction.
barren fig-tree
But what are
the facts 1 Since the disunion, the East has
gained the whole Empire of Russia, and she
has retained her hold throughout Turkey under
a grinding bondage to which no other Church
has ever been exposed, and continued to live
and prosper. Africa has been lost to the West,
and the con-
and that not partially but wholly ;