Untitled - Rore Sanctifica

54 The Re-union of Christendom.
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and peace. Cannot the unnatural excrescences
on all sides be removed ? Cannot the miseries
and wrongs of three centuries ago be forgotten
or at least forgiven? Cannot Anglican and
Roman meet upon the ground occupied by
Anselm, Augustine, and Bede ? Cannot the
Anglican see that his is
insularity narrow and
selfish ? Cannot the Anglo-Roman allow that
it is unnecessary to travel so far south to obtain
a needless epithet 1 And may not both stretch
out their hands to the distant East, and, acknow
ledging a common brotherhood, infuse into the
Orthodox Church something of the life and
vigour of the long-separated
West ?
"That they may all be One!" Ah, who
shall dare to say that amidst the throes of His
most awful Passion the foreknowledge of the
terrible divisions yet to come among those who
named His Name, worked not a fearful Agony
;
in the Sacred Heart of JESUS ? That Passion
is not a thing of eighteen centuries ago it
exists to-day. Behind the veil, our High Priest
pleads His Sacred Wounds. Let us, then, to
His Holy Prayer answer with one accord,
Amen."
Let me in conclusion quote those words of
warning uttered long since in the Lyra
Apostolica :
"
Is there no sound about our Altars heard,
Of gliding forms that long have watched in vain