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IX.
THE SPIEIT IN WHICH RE-UNION
SHOULD BE SOUGHT.
AMONGST many acts in the past, which
Anglicans cannot but deplore ; notwithstanding
losses, which even in the present phase of the
Catholic Revival in England, have not yet been
made good, it must always be a matter of
sincere thankfulness that no new theory of
Unity was broached among the many novel
innovations of the Reformation era. The
Church of England took up 110 Donatistic
position, she did but essay to perform that
which other national churches, in a certain
degree, had always laid claim to accomplish ;
while, whatever changes were effected in her
relations with other portions
of Western Christ
endom, were made rather on political than on
religious grounds. The struggle with the Court
of Rome for national independence was nothing
new. It had been carried on for generations,