Untitled - Rore Sanctifica

-58 Present Prospects of He-union.
we see? Instead of Christian Unity throughout
the world, we see schism everywhere rampant :
CHRIST S seamless robe rent into a thousand
shreds. The great holy Eastern Church
separated from the Western ; this
latter, by
unreasonable claims, causing a general disinte
gration of the Christian family ; her daughter
Churches again split up into the local fragments
of isolated National Churches ; no coherence ;
no common bond of union some ; openly hostile,
others looking suspiciously askance ! The
natural result for instead of Peace and
Charity, the peculiar marks of CHRIST S
followers we see unrest, hate, jealousy, uii-
charitableness everywhere throwing out their
noxious roots.
Where, it will be said, is the remedy for such
/ /
a deep-seated evil ? The is remedy threefold ;
(1) the cultivation of a spirit
of charitableness
and forbearance towards opponents, on which
ever side they be, whether on that of Rome or
Geneva ; (2) active co-operation in plans for
construction of Visible Unity ; joined to (3)
earnest continuous Prayer for Unity.
The view cannot for a moment be tolerated
(pace the Duke of Argyle) that we are to make
up our minds to a normal state of division en
in Christendom ! that we are to
permanence
take no steps towards removing the evil, and if
possible re-uniting outwardly those who have