Untitled - Rore Sanctifica

The Re-union of Christendom. 53
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These latter ages realize the vision
Thoughts such as the foregoing
are not con
fined to the individual who has publicly
expressed them. They have leavened, more
than most men like to acknowledge, the whole
of modern religious speculations.
" When
the Son of Man cometli shall He
find [the] Faith upon the earth 1
"
Let the
riven Church of CHRIST take these words of her
and she will
Bishop of "bishops to her heart,
indeed find in them matter for her most serious
consideration. She believes, with good reason,
that the gates of Hell shall not prevail against
her, but that promise
cannot free her from her
vast responsibility.
Amidst her internal divisions,
her subtle controversies, her warfare with her
self, she seems to forget how comparatively few
there are in the world who have been baptized
with the baptism of Jesus. Where is now the
zeal of Xavier or the chaste humility of S.
*j
Carlo Borromeo? Comfort and complacency
have smothered the one ; luxury and pride of
intellect have suffocated the other. And here
in England, once the land of saints, what is the
Jeru
form assumed by the Christian Faith "\
salem may be built as a city that is at unity
with itself, but the perversity of priests and
people has long since marred its beauty and
made sad discord where all should be harmony
* Christian Theism. By Charles C. Hennell. P. 54.