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Show NECESSITY OF UNITY. F rom "The Prince of the Apostles," a work pur-lished pur-lished last year by two distinguished Anglican divines, div-ines, we take the following extract on the necessity neces-sity of Christian unity, and the best and only means to attain it: ''Eery effort looking towards the reunion of Christendom assumes at the outset that the existing divisions and contradictions among Christians constitute con-stitute a broad reversal of that state of unity which is prescribed for us by our Saviour in the Xew Testament, and that consequently they demand the attention of all Christians. "The present study still further assumes that the Church of Rome, which is at once the largest and most famous in Christendom, a church so constituted con-stituted that it cannot formally change, and so closely related to the English people as to be the mother of their Christianity, has a first claim upon the consideration of all Christians, and more particularly par-ticularly of ourselves. "In regard to our, divisions, we should be amazed and shocked by them, were it not for the dead weight of custom; and no theory of unity that the wit of man can devise will serve to excuse them, or, to explain them away." |