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Show PUTTING SECTIONS TOGETHER. Tho prophet of God once saw scattered dry bones come together again and live. It Avas a miracle. The dry bones of protestanism haA'e been. gnawed by tho days of heresy, f ree-loA-e, free-thought and irre-ligion irre-ligion for four hundred years, and the prophecy is gone forth that these dry bone? shall be brought together to-gether in H.K), and from them shall emerge a revived re-vived church, which before "all things shall be one and holy; but ua-Carlivlic. unao". .!!. im- ";... .., gcr of the' s'c-t is' to be Con.-umiiiatctl in !;. - next year by commissioners' from all Men nuii;! ; , . professing hostility to Koine. A new era u. IV. ... i ii nt prosperity i -promised after that i u n ! s .1 ' event shall haw transpired. MiMoiriry. !, is to be consolidated : the anti-Catholic 'war!',;.:- to be concent rated, and the scattered bands nf ; . atory Protestants organized into one giai:d ;m,i, ,. defense and cn"on-o to check the advanciu- js. .,'..,. , columns of the pope. The thought is cab-uia ...j ., stir the blood of the mo-t indifferent I'ri,-. . , i! rid to iuak- heroes of all lovers of "'."" The reunion of Pi ow taui i-m Avas at; , , j before its founders "av nt to tli- ir place." -'Al ,. . , the feud between Luther ' and -Mcb.incln Im'.i. -j.,. . . . Prote.-tant world has been crying aloud:- "b j haw peace." But there can be n. peace union, and there can be no union without a u i:ig principle. A unity must 'always have a cc;. . ;- so union mu.-'t have a binding principle. '! ;., ,,,, . bond that could unite all Protestants; the .m;!;. k form on which they all ci.uld tand. i- Inured ,.;' Catholics. Cut while low unites, hatred i- ;', ,.. active of dissolvents. Two people who bear a moii hate to a third Avill soon end by l'titii,- -: '. other. For this reaon Protestant i-m v.- , breaking, up into sects from its birth: iraum. ! , ;, . thrown on ewry year, and instead of her. un united in favor of til" common i:oi:iy. Koine . ; have broken up into sects and .pursued a pa-'i warfare as costly as ir was booties-. P-t.staii.; is not on .- curbed by division, but douhi . nt,-- -i i subdivisions. Whv should there be two giv; V visions of the Mei hodi.-ts after the rock on w. -they split was bla-ted and forever removed j,.,-guns j,.,-guns of the late ciil war? Why should there be the old school and new school Pre shy tej ian- ' . should there be the free will, the open conmumi.-i . the seventh day and a hundred other kinds . f Baptists Why should there be a low and a i,'a itnd c broad church among ihc hpisc(pjiluiiis : .:. reason is that the physicid law ot -cohesion m,, "gravitation does-not apply to idea-: that the-e m i tually repel each others if not kept tot'ethcr i-.v.. principle of unh.n. In the Catholic cimrcli there i- tbi- principle .-." Union, and it has withstood the shocks und of two thou -and years, as it will ail the a auit- -may le made on it until the end of time. Tl s ; -principle is the truth of God. which is "the :irr.-yesterday, :irr.-yesterday, today and forever;" and the ini'aliibiii; of the church which is "the piluTr and ground truth." The Avord of God made ail things oir "' nothing, and gave to all a common 07id and pu -pose; that same word calls all things back to ih.-ir J beginning, and keeps them in obedience and alien;. a nee to (heir supreme hnr-giver. A divided (allelic (alle-lic church is a thivur wholly inconceivable YYe-:-ern Watchman. '. .4. |