Untitled - Rore Sanctifica

252 Corporate Re-union.
side is to labour toward
effecting
a Corporate
Re-union, and an extinction of our manifold
differences. If even our Blessed SAVIOUR had
not insisted on the organic Union of His
Followers, if He had never "
prayed that they
be One even as He and the FATHER are
might
One," still even common sense, common policy,
and a common danger, would suggest at any
rate the endeavour to effect it : nor can we
understand, how any zealous Christian, still less
any zealous Catholic, can oppose the under
taking. And yet some of the best Catholics do
or mis
oppose it, and by misunderstanding
representing our motives, or our means, labour,
to it bring into
disrepute.
Let us in conclusion briefly state some of the
objections which are thus brought, and let us
see how far they deserve our consideration : and
in doing so at present I shall confine myself for
the most part to the question of a Corporate
lie-union between the Anglican Church and
o
the Catholic Church.
It will be said, then, by the objector, and
especially the Catholic is objector, nothing im
possible to GOD, and the more we ask of Him
the more we may look to gain but ; still,
His indications in Providence are often our
what to ask and what not to ask. We ask
guide
what is probable ;
England
we do not ask definitely that
should be converted to Catholicism in