Untitled - Rore Sanctifica

INTRODUCTION.
and knee to knee, as common soldiers of our
Captain and King. Thanks be to GOD, how
ever, longing aspirations for peace and inter
communion are increasing and deepening on
all hands. Such can neither be ignored nor
"
put down," because they are from the AL
MIGHTY. Steadily, likewise, season by season,
they spread and gain strength ; so that many
who for years have been individually and in
dependently working out some theory explana
tory of present difficulties in the relation of
one part of the Christian Family with another,
find it in the sound and rational principle of
Corporate Re-union ; at the same time dis
covering on many sides sympathisers and fellow-
workers who have made a similar discovery and
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are labouring for the same end. They have
asked themselves, no doubt, w rhat is the purpose
of the great religious restoration known as the
Catholic Revival, which has materially in
fluenced every diocese throughout England?
Is it merely for the special benefit of a single
nation, or does it seem providentially intended
to be one instrument by which the schisms and
separations of past
times are to be healed for
the benefit of other peoples as well ; and by
which, in GOD S time,
the whole Christian
Family may become once more, as of old,
visibly One?
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An affirmative response to the latter should