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202 Postscript on Catholic Unity.
prosper that is formed against the Church, whether
forged by the hands of her bitterest revilers, or
by theirs who would fain be reckoned her most
devoted sons. There will always be some men
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unable to .understand that the gold is sanctified
by the temple, not the temple by the gold that
the life is more than meat and the body than
raiment whose misplaced devotion is not un
aptly symbolized by that knight
of ancient
legend, so unswerving in the ardour, so perverse
in the object of his loyalty, w r hose
. . . "honour rooted in dishonour stood,
And faith unfaithful made him falsely true."
But meanwhile the conviction is strengthen
ing on all sides of the grave injury entailed not
only upon the religious practice and belief but
even on the moral and social condition of man
kind through our unhappy divisions. Nor is
that conviction confined by any means to
those who sympathise with what it has become
"
the fashion to call the Unionist if
party," they
even know of its existence. It is admitted by
one of the fiercest enemies of the movement
"
that, were a considerable approach really
made to the Re-union of Christendom, such
approach would be unspeakably beneficial,
not only to the individual souls newly imbued
with knowledge of the Truth, but to the whole
Church, nay, and to the whole world," though
he proceeds at once to draw a gratuitous in-