Untitled - Rore Sanctifica

Introductory Essay.
xxxix
fluential prelates and laymen of the Orthodox
*"
Church in Kussia." The Bishops and
learned men on either side/ says the venerable
Philaret, the Metropolitan of Moscow,
"
may be
able to reconcile the difference between the
Eastern and Anglican Churches : but the dif
ficulty will be with the people." But the people
are to be won, not by disputing,
not in any
intellectual way, not by circulation of "infor
mation," but by prayers, and by the legitimate
influence of their own Bishops. The ex
hortations of the Bishop of Moray to his little
flock to pray for the Re-union of Christendom,
will, we may trust, swell that choir of prayer
which has now, for above a quarter of a cen
tury, been ascending from England.
With these large o facts from the North and
South of the Russo-Greek Church, it is
evidently no indication of its mind that one
who appears to have been a German convertf to
it, thinks that he has a vocation^
"
to build up
again the Orthodox Western Church, stone by
stone, individual by individual, congregation by
congregation," and that, giving up as hopeless
the idea of
"
uniting the two he would
wholes,"
*
f
Charge 1866, p. 27.
"
I found the Orthodox Church to be the only true
Catholic Church, and, consequently, try to bring about a
Re-union of the other Christian Churches (chiefly the
English Church) with the Orthodox." Dr. Overbeck,
Catholic
Orthodoxy, Pref. p, 1.
J 16. p. 198.