Untitled - Rore Sanctifica

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which has been created between either through
the sacraments. Then will there be some
well-grounded hope of a future permanent
success.
And here a few words should be put on
record for those who are unhopeful or despond
for the future. For the present it seems
obvious that little can be actually undertaken
for the promotion of Visible Unity. Some
years must elapse before the great work of
preparation is sufficiently advanced to enable
our rulers and the rulers of the Orthodox and
Western Churches to contemplate the common
needs of every part of the Christian Family,
and to co-operate respectively with their sepa
rated brethren for bringing about so desirable
a consummation. Members of the Church of
England are certainly far from prepared for
Corporate Re-union. To the general body of
the people
such an act would be distasteful in
the highest degree. For the present Prejudice
and Ignorance are potent. The separation of
three centuries, the national pride and love of
insulation
"
political necessities," as they are
termed the bitterness of theological contro
versy, and the deliberate perversions of his
torical truth which such a wearisome con
troversy has engendered, are still exercising an
influence baneful and considerable. Old pre
judices, therefore, must be first rooted up. The
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