Untitled - Rore Sanctifica

250 Corporate Re-union.
seem to betoken that we are rapidly approaching
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the termination of what our LORD terms the
Times of the Gentiles/ that is the time during
which the nations converted to Christianity were
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to constitute GOD S favoured people, occupying
the position formerly held by the Children of
Abraham. S. Paul in his Epistle to the Romans
warns us of the coming of this eventful time :
S. Peter foretells it also. But on the other
hand, the whole of the inspired volume points
to a great moral reaction, to a grand triumph of
the Church, after this last conflict shall be past,
when Unity shall reiom from one end of the
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earth to the other, when Jew and Gentile shall
combine in one unanimous adoration of JESUS
CHRIST, and when the Kingdom of Messiah
shall swallow up all the kingdoms and empires
that have ever been established here below.
Is this then a time for Christians to uphold
their past divisions? is it not rather a time for
mutual charity, for mutual forbearance, for
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mutual explanation ? A voice has gone forth
at least on one side of the wall
calling
of separation
all men to Unity in the Truth : that
great and remarkable man, the venerable Dr.
Pusey, has come forth with all the weight of his
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gigantic learning, with all the energy of a bound
less
charity, to call all upon the members of hipown
Communion to go back to the fountain of
Primitive Tradition, and laying aside the
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