Untitled - Rore Sanctifica

238 Corporate Re-union.
flict, fighting against one another, instead of
striving to subdue the whole world to the Faith
of JESUS CHRIST. What is it but the divisions
of Christendom, which have robbed Christendom
of its distinctive Christian character, and of all
collective action in the world for a common
Christian purpose ? What is it, but the same
divisions, which render a Christian polity im
possible in any Christian country ?
How can there be Christian legislation on
the matter of secular education, so long as the
community is subdivided into so many contend
ing communions, each anathematizing the
other 1 The indifferentism of modern legisla
tion is evidently a great evil, but how can it be
avoided, when nations are split up into such a
variety of sects ? The infidelity of the present
generation, increasino; every dav, is an evil
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greater still, but who can wonder at when the
it,
foundations of all belief are undermined by the
recriminations and the furious controversies of
Christians ? Who can wonder at
contending
the continued increase of immorality and crime
when Christians
disagree about the very
Fountain, from which alone any intelligible
distinction between Right and Wrong can flow ?
What else is the true secret of the anti-social
and revolutionary principles of the present day?
to what else are we
And, on a larger scale still,
to attribute the utter disregard of public right,