Untitled - Rore Sanctifica

60 Present Prospects of Re-union.
no reason why we should not mourn over it
and pray for a remedy, and keep a hope of
better things constantly in view for present
consolation and for future remedy. And
though the general remedy for the whole out
ward evil, being as it is the growth of centuries,
is impossible at once, yet to each one the evil
may be very much lightened by constantly
bearing in mind this truth, (never to be for
gotten in GOD S works,) that the good is deeper
than the evil; that the good is the foundation
and root of things, the evil is an after-growth . .
The good is the eternal purpose of GOD, the
evil the self-will of creatures."
We may sometimes think the part taken by
ourselves, as individuals, of little importance
in the general affairs of Churches, yet we must
ever bear in mind that public opinion is the
result in the aggregate of private opinions in
many individuals. Public opinion
consists in
many private opinions drawn into one focus ;
it is obvious therefore that every charitable
thought towards other Communions entertained
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by private persons will in time be reproduced,
and go to form a purer public opinion as be
tween Church and Church. The cultivation,
then, of a spirit of charity, of forbearance,
towards other Communions, is one step towards
a remedy.
There are manv men who are half if not