Untitled - Rore Sanctifica

II.
THE EE-UNION OF CHRISTENDOM
IN ITS RELATION TO
SCEPTICISM AND INFIDELITY.
BY SIR CHARLES L. YOUNG, BART.
AWAY! away!
Thou speakest
to me of
JLJL things which in all my endless life I
never found ! Such was Jean Paul Richter s
passionate apostrophe to Music ;
and some such
sentiment has doubtless passed through the
minds of many when they have endeavoured to
concentrate their thoughts upon the Re-union
of Christendom. The task seems so hopeless ;
the way to He-union so weary : the obstacles
in the way so insurmountable ; and, to some
minds, the positive excellence of the result so
doubtful. And so it happens that many good
and earnest men turn from it as from a problem
too hard, and perhaps, after all, unnecessary
to solve. By others it is vehemently urged that
speculation on the possibility or probability of
Re-union, or contemplation of the ways and
means thereto, is unproductive labour, and it