Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Andover Review, Vol. 6: A Religious and Theological Monthly; July December, 1886
Undoubtedly the unity of Christ's church is not to be math ematically but spiritually discerned. If Christian bodies, while distinct in name, apart in organization, are yet visibly of one mind and heart, their severance accidental and formal, their accordance substantial and real, we may well forget unessential discrepancies and rejoice that the petition of our Lord is fulfilled. If the mem bers are one body, if the parts, however variously labeled, fit to gether as one whole, it is enough. Catholicity is of the spirit, not the letter. Men may demand church unity in the narrowest mood of schismatic and sectarian, as the Communist required fraternity, - be my brother or I '11 out your throat. And yet there is a sin of schism, and those who maintain as well as those who cause divisions share it. The original transgression may rest upon our fathers, and we need not nicely parcel their share of it who went out and theirs who stayed in, the part of those who rigidly com pressed or those who rashly rent the common body. The guilt may be jointly theirs, but on us the penalty has fallen, and only our vicarious repentance and amendment of life can put away the burden.
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