Untitled - Rore Sanctifica

258 Corporate Re-union.
a -still greater probability that the Established
Church will cease to be, in consequence of the
Free Church and voluntary principle and move
ment. So that from this point of view at least
it is difficult, if not quite impossible, to conceive
the Establishment running into Catholicism, anvt,
more than we can conceive the Thames runningo
into the Wash.
Having now put before our Readers some of
the objections, which may be fairlv urged
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against the feasibility of our Union scheme, we
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must crave their indulgence, before we close our
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article, while we set forth what we have to sav
in reply to these objections.
In the first place, let me observe that though
I have put the objections into the mouth of a
Catholic, they are for the most part what might
occur to a member of the Church of England
or any other communion ; they are what might
be urged with equal force by eATen
a Rationalist
in the columns of the Times, or the Pall Mall
Gazette.
The objection in fact amounts to this : it is
impossible to make England Catholic again ;
impossible as it would be to change
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the course
of the Thames, or to empty that River into the
Wash instead of the Xore. Now we can under
stand such an objection as this coming from one
who disbelieved in Christianity, or who abhorred
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