Untitled - Rore Sanctifica

The Difficulties of Re-union. 95
have found out at last what will bring the
poor man to our Churches and convert him into
a humble worshipper.
I do not of course mean that these are in any
degree primary motives for the adoption of a
high Ritual they are but secondary ; neverthe
less as such, they have an immense value. Our
Ritual makes educated men enquire and think ;
while it comes home at once to the heart,
and satisfies the religious instincts of the
uneducated poor man ; and to the outer
world, to the power-seeking, mammon-loving,
self-satisfied, self-indulgent, self-worshipping
world, it rings out the Most Holy Name in
tones so high and clear, that the Prince of this
world, maddened with rage, tears his victim
ere he leaves him, and casts him down wallow
ing and foaming. Such I apprehend to be a
true account of the impotent fury of so
large a
portion of the popular press of England, and of
the mobs hounded on it. by
This is not a fitting ~ occasion to discuss a
question, which is purely an Anglican one,
beyond the point where it touches the more
general subject of this paper. Let me, however,
say this one word, that while we none of us
advocate a rough, uncharitable, forcing of Ritual
upon congregations unprepared, and unwilling
to receive it, we cannot always wait to be asked
for it : we know that Ritual is not only the
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