Untitled - Rore Sanctifica

38 Tlie Re-union of Christendom.
Here is tlie onlv sound foundation of real
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Unity in belief and morals. Finally, the notion
of lie-union is dismissed as a beautiful but
unsubstantial vision ; a fascinating day-dream,
which mav find a welcome in the bosom of the
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enthusiast and the zealot, but attracts merely a
moment s thought from the philosopher, and
nothing whatever from the man of business.
Such are pretty much the arguments, or
rather the foregone conclusions usually put
forth by the writers and talkers who claim to
represent the practical opinions of the age.
They profess to appeal to common sense, and
have but little patience with those who are
sufficiently infatuated to look upon religion as
in any way mysterious or at variance with the
temper of society. But as the matter of this
humble contribution to thoughts upon the lie-
union of Christendom is addressed principally
to those to whom that lie-union presents some
thing more than a fanciful and visionary form,
the writer conceives that it is not his business
now to deal with such sceptical objections, but
to address himself to those who sincerely believe
that a Re-union of dogmatic Christianity is in
itself a grand and noble object.
Those who watch with even moderate atten
tion the course that religious controversy is
apparently taking, cannot but arrive at the
conclusion that the coining struggle must