Untitled - Rore Sanctifica

44 The Re-union of Christendom.
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be six times as bad to recognize half-a-dozen
popes. The English system of government
culminates in a constitutional monarchy : why
should not the Church be under analogous
limitations ? Self government may be a good
thing in its way : but it is not impossible that
centralization may be a better. In the present
ritualistic controversy in the Church of *j
England ~
the intention of the Acts of is Uniformity much
insisted on by both parties.
But what are, and
what have been for a lon^ time, the actual
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patent, undeniable facts? Why almost every
parish church has, and has had, its peculiar
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use." Talk of the uses of Sarum, / Bangor. ~ 7
and York ! I am inclined to think
Hereford,
that Edward YI., and his Convocation would stare
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use that
if they could see the dissimilarity
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exists in even one diocese now-a-days. And
what does all this prove ? I am not for a
moment saying that everybody ought to think
alike and do alike, and that we should all run in
a well-intricated groove ; but I am obliged to
think that the Church presents a very much
more republican aspect than the State. And
then comes the question,
is she the better for
being so ? Is it to her advantage and to the ad
vantage of the Faith of JESUS CHRIST, that her
aspect in England should be so Protean ? And
here I would speak not only to those with
whom it is my privilege to be in full communion,