This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ...unites.2 The marvel is not that there are dissensions among the faithful, or that even St. Paul had indignantly to ask: "Is Christ divided?" but that there is overruling unity. Nor can the Church select her subjects and discriminate in the class or culture or nationality of 1 Anglican Difficulties, Lecture ix. sIbid., ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ...unites.2 The marvel is not that there are dissensions among the faithful, or that even St. Paul had indignantly to ask: "Is Christ divided?" but that there is overruling unity. Nor can the Church select her subjects and discriminate in the class or culture or nationality of 1 Anglican Difficulties, Lecture ix. sIbid., Lecture x. her converts; all have the one unquestionable title, a soul to be saved; they have but to knock and the door must be opened; and no lack of courtesy, gentility, learning, good antecedents, are a bar to receive the ministrations of her who holds in her hand the chalice of salvation, and in virtue of that precious charge, whatever else she may be, must remain the Church not only of the illmannered and coarse-minded, but of the criminal and the outcast. And this too she must needs be in order to be assimilated to her Divine Archetype who took on Himself the burden of man's disgrace and guilt; and she must journey through the centuries bearing as the heaviest of her trials and the greatest hindrance to her success the daily shame of her unworthy members, and be well content if she can save at their death those who have been a disgrace to her during their life. Moreover from the very first the All Holy Church has known full well the conditions of her earthly pilgrimage, and it has ever been her formal doctrine that she includes sinners among her members, weeds among the wheat not to be rooted out till the Domesday harvest; that her net is to gather in not good fish only but bad; that the foolish virgins no less than the wise come to meet the Bridegroom; that there is woe to those by whom scandal comes, but come indeed it must. We are only yet on the road--in via; the goal is not yet reached; the ideal not yet attained; the Chur...
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