Untitled - Rore Sanctifica

Introductory Essay.
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the Church) and logical inquiry and inves
tigation."
Who, but One, could have awakened these
feelings
in the eminent Fathers of the Greek
Church, apart from and without concert with
one another, yet not less strong when united
in synod, save the Blessed Spirit, Who bloweth
where He listeth, but, where His breath is,
there is love? Nor, in regard to the recognition
of us, as true members of the Church of
CHRIST, is it any slight token of good-will,
that one Metropolitan consecrated the portable
altar of him who travelled among them ; others
ever gave him the sacred elements which they
had blessed in preparation for the consecration,
wherewith he might celebrate the Holy Eu
charist. Had they thought us "heretics," or
our Orders null, this would have been a pro
fanation.
The like
predispositions in the Russian
Church are attested by the Bishop of Moray
and Ross, and are the more remarkable because
he purposely
"
abstained from introducing the
subject," since he supposed himself to represent
another Prelate. But he says :* u I conversed
with scarcely a single Russian who did not
*/ O
introduce the subject himself, and converse
upon it in the most friendly
manner."
* Charge 1866, p. 15.
and earnest