Untitled - Rore Sanctifica

266 Corporate Re-union.
that it is less difficult than to do as much for
as a whole. And we contend more
England
over that in order to do this for England,
it is
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necessary to begin with the Anglican Church :
and whv so ? Simply because the Anglican
Church represents the governing mind of Eng
land, and because it is precise!} with the
Anglican Church that we perceive
the Hand of
GOD actually working : for we presume that
not even our Catholic objector will urge that
it is the devil who is inspiring Anglicans with
their love of Catholic
usages and their venera
tion for the Monastic State. Well, then, what
we want to do is to eliminate heresy, schism, and
scepticism from the Church of England. That
done, she becomes Catholic in toto, as much as
our objector became, when lie
got free from his
errors some twenty years ago. As he says, and
says truly, tiie Rod of Aaron must swallow up
the serpents of the Magicians : and why not, if
GOD be as alt-powerful as He was in the time
of Moses ? Of course the High Church must
swallow up the Evangelical and the Broad
Church, and the spirit of Christian belief must
eliminate the scepticism that lies beyond both.
Xow what is modern ? scepticism may we not
compare it, to the husks of swine,
on which the
Prodigal was reduced to feed after his riotous
wanderings and his reckless squanderings of his
patrimonial
substance ? But do we not re-