Untitled - Rore Sanctifica

xlviii Introductory Essay.
English people outside her. For if the English
Church gains more from Dissent or unbelief or
ungodliness, than she loses to Rome, then
time alone will not exhaust her if she continues
to be thus replenished. Take that vast field of
the unbaptised, the United States, where the
gains of the Church are more visible because
there is not that outlying body, which hangs
on only by an hereditary faith, the increase of
those won to the Church is very large, the losses
to Rome are, I believe, very small. Even in
the late fratricidal war the souls added to the
Church more than replaced those who were
translated to the unseen Church above.
But in whichever way any of our Roman
brethren look to the restoration of Communion,
whether by individual conversions or by Cor
porate Re-union, a spirit of prayer and longing
seems to have been poured out upon them, too ;
and, while we both pray, united herein though
apart in communion, He to Whom we plead that
same adorable Sacrifice, once for all offered on
the Cross, He Whom we remind of His own
prayer, and long of Him that it be fulfilled,
will hear us in His own way ; which must be
the best. We must be thankful for the prayers
offered for us, whatever form they assume, be
cause they ask for us the grace of GOD.
And in regard to the Latin Church I believe
that the difficulty of Re-union might be re-