Untitled - Rore Sanctifica

The Difficulties of Re-union. 93
kingdom. A very large number of them, some
three or four hundred persons altogether,
attended an early celebration of the Holy
Eucharist; in the Church in which they met
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the service was most admirably performed, and
it need not be added that the congregation was
most reverent ; indeed, nothing could be more
striking than the response of that large assembly
of devout men. No one who heard it could
ever forget it. Again, they
were almost exclu
Churchmen. Some even there
sively High
were who on paper and by speech had stood up
manfully in defence of this very doctrine ; yet,
after the Blessing had been given, while some
few remained devoutly kneeling to consume
that which remained of the consecrated ele
ments, the rest, with the exception
of three or
four, lounged carelessly out of Church, passing
their morning greetings to one another without
apparently more consciousness of any special
reverence due than men usually exhibit in
leaving a College Chapel. What can Ave con
clude from this but that that laige assembly of
the High Church clergy of England, repre
senting every diocese within it probably, did
not in the remotest degree realize the verity of
a true, objective Presence in the most Holy
Eucharist.
Here, then, is perhaps our chiefest difficulty
the very teachers of our Church have to be