Untitled - Rore Sanctifica

48 The Re-union of Christendom.
submit that the chiefest
step towards the
Re-union of Christendom will be gained when
the Catholic Church shall present- an objectively
united aspect. That great feat accomplished,
I do not think that there will be much difficulty
in persuading all those who hold any form of
dogmatic Christianity to join the then truly
universal Church. There needs no ghost come
o
from the grave to tell us that.
Dogmatic Christianity
! There will be not
much difficulty there. It is the non-dogmatic
Christianity that regards with comfortable con-
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tempt
the notion of a re-united Faith. The
Protestant whose constant cry is,
and the Bible only !
"The Bible
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little thinks that he is
found to be in fact at one with those who
softly say,
" The Biblical poems and rhapsodies
with these we are content!" Yet so it is.
Both deny the authoritative voice of the Holy
Ghost speaking through the Church, though
thev confess some belief in an abstract grace
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of GOD, gotten they know not how. For them
there are no Sacraments for them no outward
means ; all depends upon some ^indefinable
some innate faculty which
spiritual perception ;
when analysed seems nothing; more or less than
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sentiment.
The age in which we live does not, however,
on the whole object to religion,
it rather
patronizes it, indeed ; and a certain amount of