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230 Corporate Re-union.
same imperfect Light. It is a necessary and
natural consequence of their position, but once
that a Re-union is really at hand, they will then
view it as we do. The work of the HOLY
GHOST is a gradual work. GOD takes a man
as he finds him, and from the imperfect
glimmerings of Truth He leads him on to its
full
possession. If we want our separated
brethren to be brought o to the full measure of
truth, let us not wrangle with them about the
imperfection of their present notions, but
rather let us aid them in their progress to a
more perfect perception of Divine Light.
we insist upon their holding every point
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of
belief with a perfectly Catholic accuracy in the
be<nnninor O O of our neoO ociations, / we are expecting
them to be at first what they can only
become as the result and final issue of the
negociation
we are simply reversing the order
of things, attempting to roof our edifice before
we have laid its foundations.
It would almost seem a waste of time to
argue such a point, or to attempt
to vindicate
the principle of a Corporate Re-union, were it
not for the pertinacious opposition of some
excellent men amon<j our fellow Catholics, who
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still persist in misunderstanding what is so very
simple, and who are thus induced (unintention
ally no doubtj to misrepresent our object and
to condemn our work. We will only, in reply