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een consummated; the whole Church of the West might have been<br />

purified. All those mighty resources. which Rome now spends against the<br />

truth, all those mighty agencies by which one form of Protestantism tears<br />

down another, might have been hallowed to one service--Christ enthroned<br />

in His renovated Church, <strong>and</strong> sanctifying to pure uses all that is beautiful<br />

in her outward order. <strong>The</strong> Oriental Church could not have resisted the<br />

pressure. <strong>The</strong> Church Catholic, transfigured by her faith, with robes to<br />

which snow has no whiteness <strong>and</strong> the sun no splendor, would have risen in<br />

a gr<strong>and</strong>eur before which the world would have stood in wonder <strong>and</strong> awe.<br />

But such yearnings as these wait long on time. <strong>The</strong>ir consummation was<br />

not then to be, but it shall be yet.

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