Untitled - Rore Sanctifica

212 Spirit in which Re-union should be sought.
people must be carefully and patiently taught
by painstaking teachers to unlearn much that
has been delivered by those who have been
wrongly instructed, as a part
of GOD S Truth.
By a silent revolution, and not by a religious
cataclasm, must this needful work be carried
out. For thirty years and more a change for
the better has, as we so well know, been
gradually made. Every sermon of positive
Catholic dogma, every Church restored to some
thing of its pristine completeness, each good
book, leavened with the true leaven, has more
or less left its mark on those who have read it
and have helped on the work. The restoration
of Catholic principles, not learnt from foreign
Christians, but gathered from the energising
principles
of the undivided Church, has
been a most powerful means of preparing
the minds of many for first contemplating
the need of Re-union, and then for pray
ing and working for its accomplishment.
The restoration of Catholic practices, of
ritual, the religious life, and of a thoroughly
Christian education for classes who had
been neglected, have given an impetus to the
movement, the breadth and importance of
which has not yet been adequately measured.
Signs of Divine power and extended influence
are apparent on all hands. Still it is only a
work of preparation that can be attempted. As