JOHN HEW NASH LIBRARY <8> SAN FRANCISCO <$> PRESENTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA ROBERT GORDON SPROUL, PRESIDENT. <> BY~ *> MR.ANDMRS.MILTON S.RAV CECILY, VIRGINIA AND ROSALYN RAY AND THE RAY OIL BURNEKCDMPANY SAN FRANCISCO NEW YORK. * >- Clje Plimpton NORWOOD MASS. SPECIMEN PAGES OF PRINTING TYPES FROM NORWOOD MASS. IPrinteti at the {Plimpton 1904 Copyright 1904 by The Plimpton Press INTRODUCTORY THIS pamphlet of specimen pages of printing types is intended to show in a full series of sizes the various faces in use at The Plimpton Press. The different pages of book faces have been made up, approxi- mately, to book size, solid and two-point leaded, displaying to a certain extent the effectiveness of the type for book purposes. The number of lines and words to the page is given in each specimen, so that word averages for any size page may be closely estimated. We have selected these book faces for our general book work, believing that in both the old style and modern letters we have chosen types that are readable and at the same time artistic in their design. The specimens of faces larger than twelve- point include all of the old styles and mod- ern Romans, Gothics, and job letters used [7] so advantageously in book and publishers' printing. In addition to these type faces we have a very complete assortment of initials, head and tail pieces and decorative ornaments, each in the complete font or series. [8] INDEX No. 31, 6-pt. solid . . Leaded 10 11 10-pt. Elzevir (2) leaded . 43 No. 26, 9-pt. with No. 31 No. 31, 8-pt. solid . . Leaded 13 10-pt. solid ... 44 Leaded 45 No. 31, 10-pt. solid . . Leaded 14 15 8-pt. Antique O. S. solid . 46 Leaded 47 No. 31, 11-pt. solid . . Leaded . . 16 17 10-pt. Antique O. S. solid 48 Leaded 49 No. 31, 12-pt. solid . . Leaded 8-pt. Caslon O. S. solid . Leaded 18 19 20 21 12-pt. Antique O. S. solid 50 Leaded 51 10-pt. Cheltenham, solid 52 Leaded 53 10-pt. Caslon O. S. solid Leaded 22 23 11-pt. Cheltenham, solid 54 Leaded 55 11-pt. Caslon O. S. solid Leaded 24 25 12-pt. Cheltenham, solid 56 Leaded 57 12-pt. Caslon O. S. solid Leaded 14-pt. Caslon O. S. solid Leaded ..... 18-pt. Caslon O. S. solid Leaded 8-pt. Edinburgh, solid Leaded .... 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 Caslon Series .... 58-60 18-pt. Satanic .... 60 10-pt. Priory Text . . 60 Caslon Text Series . . 61 Cheltenham Series . . 62-64 9-pt. No. 26 . . . . 64 6-pt. Lining Gothic . . 64 6-pt. Inclined Antique 64 10-pt. Edinburgh, solid . Leaded 11-pt. Edinburgh, solid . Leaded 12-pt. Edinburgh, solid . Leaded 34 35 36 37 38 39 9-pt. Cushing O. S. . . 64 10-pt. Jensen .... 64 Winchell Series . . .65, 66 Antique O. S. Series . 66 12-pt. Standard Type- writer 67 10-pt. Elzevir (1) solid . Leaded .... 40 41 Caslon Old Style Initials 68,69 Missal Initials 69 10-pt. Elzevir (2) solid . 42 Type Borders and Bands 70-72 PRINTING TYPES choose, but moving steadily, and that not by the shaping of circumstances, but by the guiding of the Holy Ghost, toward that form and character which, having once taken on, it has now retained, whatever temporary obscuration of its primitive char- acter or degradation of its high purpose may have befallen it, for well-nigh twenty centuries. And therefore we are here to disown the theory that the organic form of Chris- tianity, as the Catholic Church holds it and has perpetuated it, is merely the develop- ment and outcome of civil and secular institutions, amid which it originally found itself, any more than the Atonement on Calvary was the outcome of the Platonic or Aristotelian philosophies. Points of resemblance, points of contact, points of iden- tity, even, we may own, here and there, it may be, in the one as in the others; but we are here to-day, if I at all understand the purpose of our coming, to affirm that yonder volume does not more truly declare to us the means of our salvation than it declares and defines that one preeminent agency, the CHURCH OF THE LIVING GOD, with its inspired message and its divinely instituted sacraments, and divinely appointed threefold ministry, as the visible agency and instrument by which that salvation is to be made known to men. And here, at any rate, whatever may be proper elsewhere, we are not called upon to go beyond this. How truly a human body may be so designated which is more or less maimed or mutilated is a question which theology may not find it easier to answer in one domain than science in another. But in an age when there is so much invertebrate belief, and when the tone of mutual complacency is so great that one man's deliro (I dream) is as good as another man's credo (I believe), it is as well in connection with such an occasion as this to understand the ground upon which we stand, and the point from which we set out. The cause of the reunion of Christen- dom will be greatly forwarded by the kindly temper which strives to understand, and scorns to misrepresent others; but it will not be helped by the mistaken amiability which seeks to misinterpret or consents to misrepresent ourselves. I have said this much, and have endeavored to say it with utmost plainness, be- cause, unless I am mistaken, the exigency of the hour demands it. But I have done so mainly because it opens the way to that larger view of our text and of this occasion to which, if possible, we should ascend. (a) For, first of all, and plainly enough, it belongs to us to remember on such an occasion as this that there is a past, and that we cannot divorce ourselves from it. Interesting and impressive as even the coldest criticism would be apt to own the service in which we are now engaged, neither its impressiveness nor its intrinsic appropriateness is the reason for our observance of those solemn features which compose it. We did not originate, extemporize, or invent them. Their claim upon us, first of all, resides in this: that they are a part of that venerable and scriptural inheritance of which God has put us in trust. In an age which, with its smart scio- lism, considers itself competent to invent a method for every emergency, and extem- porize a function for every most august solemnity, it is enough for us that we are here engaged in doing what "our fathers did aforetime." That law of historic con- tinuity which Christ in His earlier ministry so consistently and invariably emphasized, from the day when, at His home in Nazareth, He went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day to those closing hours when, on the eve of His crucifixion, He made ready to keep the Passover with His disciples, is still the Church's truest wisdom, as it is daily coming more and more plainly to be seen to be an essential element of her inmost strength. The evolution of the Church, like the evolution of the highest forms of physical and intellectual life, must forever be along those h'nes which keep her present in close and vascular connection with her past. No more tragic lesson has been taught to Christendom than that which salutes us, in this land and age, in the manifold and mutually destructive divisions of that Christendom, as to the folly and madness of the defiance of that law. We are set, in a generation of ignorant and audacious departures from primitive faith and practice, to say, and to say it over and over again, "the old is better." We are set to affirm that, howsoever it may have been caricatured, overstated, or misunderstood, there is a doctrine of Apostolic suc- cession in teaching, in ministry, in fellowship, and that we are to guard it and per- petuate it. Preeminent as are the truths of Christ's personal relation to the personal soul, we may not forget that He has chosen to reveal and proclaim them through an agency which binds those souls to one another and to Him in the great as well as "good estate of the Catholic Church." And this it is our bounden duty to remember and to affirm, not less but more, because it is to many an unwelcome and unnecessary affirmation, and one that, only late and slowly, men are coming to own and accept. But when we have done this duty, we are not to leave the other duty undone, and [10] 6-Pt. No. 31, solid] Qfyt Plimpton B5re0!8 [ 024 words, 65 lines PRINTING TYPES choose, but moving steadily, and that not by the shaping of circumstances, but by the guiding of the Holy Ghost, toward that form and character which, having once taken on, it has now retained, whatever temporary obscuration of its primitive char- acter or degradation of its high purpose may have befallen it, for well-nigh twenty centuries. And therefore we are here to disown the theory that the organic form of Chris- tianity, as the Catholic Church holds it and has perpetuated it, is merely the develop- ment and outcome of civil and secular institutions, amid which it originally found itself, any more than the Atonement on Calvary was the outcome of the Platonic or Aristotelian philosophies. Points of resemblance, points of contact, points of iden- tity, even, we may own, here and there, it may be, in the one as in the others; but we are here to-day, if I at all understand the purpose of our coming, to affirm that yonder volume does not more truly declare to us the means of our salvation than it declares and defines that one preeminent agency, the CHURCH OF THE LIVING GOD, with its inspired message and its divinely instituted sacraments, and divinely appointed threefold ministry, as the visible agency and instrument by which that salvation is to be made known to men. And here, at any rate, whatever may be proper elsewhere, we are not called upon to go beyond this. How truly a human body may be so designated which is more or less maimed or mutilated is a question which theology may not find it easier to answer in one domain than science in another. But in an age when there is so much invertebrate belief, and when the tone of mutual complacency is so great that one man's deliro (I dream) is as good as another man's credo (I believe), it is as well in connection with such an occasion as this to understand the ground upon which we stand, and the point from which we set out. The cause of the reunion of Christen- dom will be greatly forwarded by the kindly temper which strives to understand, and scorns to misrepresent others; but it will not be helped by the mistaken amiability which seeks to misinterpret or consents to misrepresent ourselves. I have said this much, and have endeavored to say it with utmost plainness, be- cause, unless I am mistaken, the exigency of the hour demands it. But I have done so mainly because it opens the way to that larger view of our text and of this occasion to which, if possible, we should ascend. (a) For, first of all, and plainly enough, it belongs to us to remember on such an occasion as this that there is a past, and that we cannot divorce ourselves from it. Interesting and impressive as even the coldest criticism would be apt to own the service in which we are now engaged, neither its impressiveness nor its intrinsic appropriateness is the reason for our observance of those solemn features which compose it. We did not originate, extemporize, or invent them. Their claim upon us, first of all, resides in this: that they are a part of that venerable and scriptural inheritance of which God has put us in trust. In an age which, with its smart scio- lism, considers itself competent to invent a method for every emergency, and extem- porize a function for every most august solemnity, it is enough for us that we are here engaged in doing what "our fathers did aforetime." That law of historic con- tinuity which Christ in His earlier ministry so consistently and invariably emphasized, from the day when, at His home in Nazareth, He went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day to those closing hours when, on the eve of His crucifixion, He made ready to keep the Passover with His disciples, is still the Church's truest wisdom, as it is daily coming more and more plainly to be seen to be an essential element of her inmost strength. The evolution of the Church, like the evolution of the highest 6-Pt. No. 31, leaded] Qfyt JPIimptOH ^te0)8 [683 words, 49 lines PRINTING TYPES choose, but moving steadily, and that not by the shaping of circum- stances, but by the guiding of the Holy Ghost, toward that form and character which, having once taken on, it has now retained, what- ever temporary obscuration of its primitive character or degrada- tion of its high purpose may have befallen it, for well-nigh twenty centuries. And therefore we are here to disown the theory that the organic form of Christianity, as the Catholic Church holds it and has perpet- uated it, is merely the development and outcome of civil and secular institutions, amid which it originally found itself, any more than the Atonement on Calvary was the outcome of the Platonic or Aristotelian philosophies. Points of resemblance, points of contact, points of identity, even, we may own, here and there, it may be, in the one as in the others; but we are here to-day, if I at all understand the pur- pose of our coming, to affirm that yonder volume does not more truly declare to us the means of our salvation than it declares and defines that one preeminent agency, the CHURCH OF THE LIVING GOD, with its inspired message and its divinely instituted sacraments, and divinely appointed threefold ministry, as the visible agency and instrument by which that salvation is to be made known to men. And here, at any rate, whatever may be proper elsewhere, we are not called upon to go beyond this. How truly a human body may be so designated which is more or less maimed or mutilated is a question which theology may not find it easier to answer in one domain than science in another. But in an age when there is so much invertebrate belief, and when the tone of mutual complacency is so great that one man's deliro (I dream) is as good as another man's credo (I believe), it is as well in connection with such an occasion as this to understand the ground upon which we stand, and the point from which we set out. The cause of the reunion of Christendom will be greatly forwarded by the kindly temper which strives to un- derstand, and scorns to misrepresent others; but it will not be helped by the mistaken amiability which seeks to misinterpret or consents to misrepresent ourselves. I have said this much, and have endeavored to say it with utmost plainness, because, unless I am mistaken, the exigency of the hour demands it. But I have done so mainly because it opens the way to that larger view of our text and of this occasion to which, if possible, we should ascend. For, first of all, and plainly enough, it belongs to us to remember on such an occasion as this that there is a past, and that we cannot divorce ourselves from it. Interesting and impressive as even the coldest criticism would be apt to own the service in which we are now engaged, neither its impressiveness nor its intrinsic appropriate- ness is the reason for our observance of those solemn features which compose it. We did not originate, extemporize, or invent them. Their claim upon us, first of all, resides in this: that they are a part of that venerable and scriptural inheritance of which God has put us in trust. In an age which, with its smart sciolism, considers itself 8-Pt. No. 31, solid] 3H>e limpton rej53 [555 words, 49 lines PRINTING TYPES choose, but moving steadily, and that not by the shaping of circum- stances, but by the guiding of the Holy Ghost, toward that form and character which, having once taken on, it has now retained, what- ever temporary obscuration of its primitive character or degrada- tion of its high purpose may have befallen it, for well-nigh twenty centuries. And therefore we are here to disown the theory that the organic form of Christianity, as the Catholic Church holds it and has perpet- uated it, is merely the development and outcome of civil and secular institutions, amid which it originally found itself, any more than the Atonement on Calvary was the outcome of the Platonic or Aristotelian philosophies. Points of resemblance, points of contact, points of identity, even, we may own, here and there, it may be, in the one as in the others; but we are here to-day, if I at all understand the pur- pose of our coming, to affirm that yonder volume does not more truly declare to us the means of our salvation than it declares and defines that one preeminent agency, the CHURCH OF THE LIVING GOD, with its inspired message and its divinely instituted sacraments, and divinely appointed threefold ministry, as the visible agency and instrument by which that salvation is to be made known to men. And here, at any rate, whatever may be proper elsewhere, we are not called upon to go beyond this. How truly a human body may be so designated which is more or less maimed or mutilated is a question which theology may not find it easier to answer in one domain than science in another. But in an age when there is so much invertebrate belief, and when the tone of mutual complacency is so great that one man's deliro (I dream) is as good as another man's credo (I believe), it is as well in connection with such an occasion as this to understand the ground upon which we stand, and the point from which we set out. The cause of the reunion of Christendom will be greatly forwarded by the kindly temper which strives to un- derstand, and scorns to misrepresent others; but it will not be helped by the mistaken amiability which seeks to misinterpret or consents to misrepresent ourselves. I have said this much, and have endeavored to say it with utmost plainness, because, unless I am mistaken, the exigency of the hour demands it. But I have done so mainly because it opens the way to that larger view of our text and of this occasion to which, if possible, we should ascend. 8-Pt. No. 31, leaded] H$t JPItmptOn &K00 U35 words, 3 9 lines PRINTING TYPES choose, but moving steadily, and that not by the shaping of circumstances, but by the guiding of the Holy Ghost, toward that form and character which, having once taken on, it has now retained, whatever temporary obscuration of its primi- tive character or degradation of its high purpose may have befallen it, for well-nigh twenty centuries. And therefore we are here to disown the theory that the organic form of Christianity, as the Catholic Church holds it and has perpetuated it, is merely the development and outcome of civil and secular institutions, amid which it originally found itself, any more than the Atonement on Calvary was the outcome of the Platonic or Aristotelian phi- losophies. Points of resemblance, points of contact, points of identity, even, we may own, here and there, it may be, in the one as in the others; but we are here to-day, if I at all understand the purpose of our coming, to affirm that yonder volume does not more truly declare to us the means of our salvation than it declares and defines that one preeminent agency, the CHURCH OF THE LIVING GOD, with its inspired message and its divinely instituted sacraments, and divinely appointed threefold ministry, as the visible agency and in- strument by which that salvation is to be made known to men. And here, at any rate, whatever may be proper elsewhere, we are not called upon to go beyond this. How truly a human body may be so designated which is more or less maimed or mutilated is a question which theology may not find it easier to answer in one domain than science in an- other. But in an age when there is so much invertebrate belief, and when the tone of mutual complacency is so great that one man's deliro (I dream) is as good as another man's credo (I believe), it is as well in connection with such an occasion as this to understand the ground upon which we stand, and the point from which we set out. The cause of the reunion of Christendom will be greatly forwarded by the kindly temper which strives to understand, and scorns to misrepresent others; but it will not be helped by the mis- taken amiability which seeks to misinterpret or consents to misrepresent ourselves. io-Pt. No. 31, solid] !>e BMimptOn JjKS* [380 words, 39 Hues PRINTING TYPES choose, but moving steadily, and that not by the shaping of circumstances, but by the guiding of the Holy Ghost, toward that form and character which, having once taken on, it has now retained, whatever temporary obscuration of its primi- tive character or degradation of its high purpose may have befallen it, for well-nigh twenty centuries. And therefore we are here to disown the theory that the organic form of Christianity, as the Catholic Church holds it and has perpetuated it, is merely the development and outcome of civil and secular institutions, amid which it originally found itself, any more than the Atonement on Calvary was the outcome of the Platonic or Aristotelian phi- losophies. Points of resemblance, points of contact, points of identity, even, we may own, here and there, it may be, in the one as in the others; but we are here to-day, if I at all understand the purpose of our coming, to affirm that yonder volume does not more truly declare to us the means of our salvation than it declares and defines that one preeminent agency, the CHURCH OF THE LIVING GOD, with its inspired message and its divinely instituted sacraments, and divinely appointed threefold ministry, as the visible agency and in- strument by which that salvation is to be made known to men. And here, at any rate, whatever may be proper elsewhere, we are not called upon to go beyond this. How truly a human body may be so designated which is more or less maimed or mutilated is a question which theology may not find it easier to answer in one domain than science in an- other. But in an age when there is so much invertebrate belief, and when the tone of mutual complacency is so great that one man's deliro (I dream) is as good as another man's credo (I believe), it is as well in connection with such an io-Pt. No. 31, leaded] STJ>e IPIimpton jR9tes [318 words, 32 lines PRINTING TYPES choose, but moving steadily, and that not by the shaping of circumstances, but by the guiding of the Holy Ghost, toward that form and character which, having once taken on, it has now retained, whatever temporary ob- scuration of its primitive character or degradation of its high purpose may have befallen it, for well-nigh twenty centuries. And therefore we are here to disown the theory that the organic form of Christianity, as the Catholic Church holds it and has perpetuated it, is merely the develop- ment and outcome of civil and secular institutions, amid which it originally found itself, any more than the Atonement on Calvary was the outcome of the Platonic or Aristotelian philosophies. Points of resemblance, points of contact, points of identity, even, we may own, here and there, it may be, in the one as in the others; but we are here to-day, if I at all understand the pur- pose of our coming, to affirm that yonder volume does not more truly declare to us the means of our salvation than it declares and defines that one preeminent agency, the CHURCH OF THE LIVING GOD, with its inspired mes- sage and its divinely instituted sacraments, and divinely appointed threefold ministry, as the visible agency and instrument by which that salvation is to be made known to men. And here, at any rate, whatever may be proper else- where, we are not called upon to go beyond this. How truly a human body may be so designated which is more or less maimed or mutilated is a question which theology may not find it easier to answer in one domain than science in another. But in an age when there is so much invertebrate belief, and when the tone of mu- tual complacency is so great that one man's deliro (I dream) is as good as another man's credo (I believe), it is as well in connection with such an occasion as this to [16] n-Pt. No. 31, solidj 3t&t Itapton J?n [357 words, 35 lines PRINTING TYPES choose, but moving steadily, and that not by the shaping of circumstances, but by the guiding of the Holy Ghost, toward that form and character which, having once taken on, it has now retained, whatever temporary ob- scuration of its primitive character or degradation of its high purpose may have befallen it, for well-nigh twenty centuries. And therefore we are here to disown the theory that the organic form of Christianity, as the Catholic Church holds it and has perpetuated it, is merely the develop- ment and outcome of civil and secular institutions, amid which it originally found itself, any more than the Atonement on Calvary was the outcome of the Platonic or Aristotelian philosophies. Points of resemblance, points of contact, points of identity, even, we may own, here and there, it may be, in the one as in the others; but we are here to-day, if I at all understand the pur- pose of our coming, to affirm that yonder volume does not more truly declare to us the means of our salvation than it declares and defines that one preeminent agency, the CHURCH OF THE LIVING GOD, with its inspired mes- sage and its divinely instituted sacraments, and divinely appointed threefold ministry, as the visible agency and instrument by which that salvation is to be made known to men. And here, at any rate, whatever may be proper else- where, we are not called upon to go beyond this. How truly a human body may be so designated which is more or less maimed or mutilated is a question which theology may not find it easier to answer in one domain [17] n-Pt. No. 31, leaded] &|>e CDIimpton IPre00 [269 words, 30 lines PRINTING TYPES choose, but moving steadily, and that not by the shaping of circumstances, but by the guiding of the Holy Ghost, toward that form and character which, having once taken on, it has now retained, whatever temporary obscuration of its primitive character or degradation of its high purpose may have befallen it, for well-nigh twenty centuries. And therefore we are here to disown the theory that the organic form of Christianity, as the Catho- lic Church holds it and has perpetuated it, is merely the development and outcome of civil and secular institutions, amid which it originally found itself, any more than the Atonement on Calvary was the outcome of the Platonic or Aristotelian philosophies. Points of resemblance, points of contact, points of identity, even, we may own, here and there, it may be, in the one as in the others; but we are here to-day, if I at all under- stand the purpose of our coming, to affirm that yonder volume does not more truly declare to us the means of our salvation than it declares and defines that one preeminent agency, the CHURCH OF THE LIVING GOD, with its inspired message and its divinely instituted sacraments, and divinely appointed threefold ministry, as the visible agency and instrument by which that salvation is to be made known to men. And here, at any rate, whatever may be proper elsewhere, we are not called upon to go beyond this. How truly a human body may be so desig- nated which is more or less maimed or mutilated is a question which theology may not find it easier [18] i 2 -Pt. No. 31, solid] >e ItmjJtOn re00 [264 words, 32 lines PRINTING TYPES choose, but moving steadily, and that not by the shaping of circumstances, but by the guiding of the Holy Ghost, toward that form and character which, having once taken on, it has now retained, whatever temporary obscuration of its primitive character or degradation of its high purpose may have befallen it, for well-nigh twenty centuries. And therefore we are here to disown the theory that the organic form of Christianity, as the Catho- lic Church holds it and has perpetuated it, is merely the development and outcome of civil and secular institutions, amid which it originally found itself, any more than the Atonement on Calvary was the outcome of the Platonic or Aristotelian philosophies. Points of resemblance, points of contact, points of identity, even, we may own, here and there, it may be, in the one as in the others; but we are here to-day, if I at all under- stand the purpose of our coming, to affirm that yonder volume does not more truly declare to us the means of our salvation than it declares and defines that one preeminent agency, the CHURCH or THE LIVING GOD, with its inspired message and its divinely instituted sacraments, and divinely appointed threefold ministry, as the visible agency and instrument by which that salvation is to be made known to men. E*9] i2-Pt. No. 31, leaded] 'Qtyt JPlimptOH J^reW [218 words, 27 lines PRINTING TYPES choose, but moving steadily, and that not by the shaping of circumstances, but by the guiding of the Holy Ghost, toward that form and character which, having once taken on, it has now retained, whatever temporary obscuration of its primitive character or degradation of its high purpose may have befallen it, for well-nigh twenty centuries. And therefore we are here to disown the theory that the organic form of Christianity, as the Catholic Church holds it and has perpetuated it, is merely the development and outcome of civil and secular institutions, amid which it originally found itself, any more than the Atonement on Calvary was the out- come of the Platonic or Aristotelian philosophies. Points of resemblance, points of contact, points of identity, even, we may own, here and there, it may be, in the one as in the others; but we are here to-day, if I at all understand the purpose of our coming, to affirm that yonder volume does not more truly declare to us the means of our salvation than it declares and defines that one preeminent agency, the CHURCH OF THE LIVING GOD, with its inspired message and its divinely instituted sacraments, and divinely appointed threefold ministry, as the visible agency and instrument by which that salvation is to be made known to men. And here, at any rate, whatever may be proper elsewhere, we are not called upon to go beyond this. How truly a human body may be so designated which is more or less maimed or mutilated is a question which theology may not find it easier to answer in one domain than science in another. But in an age when there is so much invertebrate belief, and when the tone of mutual complacency is so great that one man's deliro (I dream) is as good as another's man credo (I believe), it is as well in connection with such an occasion as this to under- stand the ground upon which we stand, and the point from which we set out. The cause of the reunion of Christendom will be greatly forwarded by the kindly temper which strives to understand, and scorns to misrepresent others; but it will not be helped by the mistaken amiability which seeks to misinterpret or consents to misrepresent ourselves. I have said this much, and have endeavored to say it with utmost plainness, because, unless I am mistaken, the exigency of the hour demands it. But I have done so mainly because it opens the way to that larger view of our text and of this occasion to which, if possible, we should ascend. For, first of all, and plainly enough, it belongs to us to remember on such an occasion as this that there is a past, and that we cannot divorce ourselves from it. Interesting and impressive as even the coldest criticism would be apt to own the service in which we are now engaged, neither its impressiveness nor its intrinsic appropriateness is the reason for our observance of those solemn features which compose it. We did not originate, extemporize, or invent them. Their claim upon us, first of all, resides in this: that they are a part of that venerable and scriptural inheritance of which God has put us in trust. In an age which, with its smart sciolism, considers itself competent to invent a method for every emergency, and extemporize a function for every most august solem- nity, it is enough for us that we are here engaged in doing what "our fathers did aforetime." That law of historic continuity which Christ in His earlier ministry so consistently and invariably emphasized, from the day when, at His home in Nazareth, He went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day to those dosing hours when, on the eve of His crucifixion, He made ready to [20] 8-Pt. Caslon O. S. solid] ty MmptOlt prrBS [638 words, 49 lines PRINTING TYPES choose, but moving steadily, and that not by the shaping of circumstances, but by the guiding of the Holy Ghost, toward that form and character which, having once taken on, it has now retained, whatever temporary obscuration of its primitive character or degradation of its high purpose may have befallen it, for well-nigh twenty centuries. And therefore we are here to disown the theory that the organic form of Christianity, as the Catholic Church holds it and has perpetuated it, is merely the development and outcome of civil and secular institutions, amid which it originally found itself, any more than the Atonement on Calvary was the out- come of the Platonic or Aristotelian philosophies. Points of resemblance, points of contact, points of identity, even, we may own, here and there, it may be, in the one as in the others; but we are here to-day, if I at all understand the purpose of our coming, to affirm that yonder volume does not more truly declare to us the means of our salvation than it declares and defines that one preeminent agency, the CHURCH OF THE LIVING GOD, with its inspired message and its divinely instituted sacraments, and divinely appointed threefold ministry, as the visible agency and instrument by which that salvation is to be made known to men. And here, at any rate, whatever may be proper elsewhere, we are not called upon to go beyond this. How truly a human body may be so designated which is more or less maimed or mutilated is a question which theology may not find it easier to answer in one domain than science in another. But in an age when there is so much invertebrate belief, and when the tone of mutual complacency is so great that one man's deliro (I dream) is as good as another's man credo (I believe), it is as well in connection with such an occasion as this to under- stand the ground upon which we stand, and the point from which we set out. The cause of the reunion of Christendom will be greatly forwarded by the kindly temper which strives to understand, and scorns to misrepresent others; but it will not be helped by the mistaken amiability which seeks to misinterpret or consents to misrepresent ourselves. I have said this much, and have endeavored to say it with utmost plainness, because, unless I am mistaken, the exigency of the hour demands it. But I have done so mainly because it opens the way to that larger view of our text and of this occasion to which, if possible, we should ascend. For, first of all, and plainly enough, it belongs to us to remember on such an occasion as this that there is a past, and that we cannot divorce ourselves from it. Interesting and impressive as even the coldest criticism would be apt to own the service in which we are now engaged, neither its impressiveness nor its intrinsic appropriateness is the reason for our observance of those solemn [zi] 8-Pt. Caslon O. S. leaded] 'Qfyt $ItmptOn rC00 [506 words, 39 lines PRINTING TYPES choose, but moving steadily, and that not by the shaping of circumstances, but by the guiding of the Holy Ghost, toward that form and character which, having once taken on, it has now retained, whatever temporary obscuration of its primitive character or degradation of its high purpose may have befallen it, for well-nigh twenty centuries. And therefore we are here to disown the theory that the or- ganic form of Christianity, as the Catholic Church holds it and has perpetuated it, is merely the development and outcome of civil and secular institutions, amid which it originally found itself, any more than the Atonement on Calvary was the out- come of the Platonic or Aristotelian philosophies. Points of resemblance, points of contact, points of identity, even, we may own, here and there, it may be, in the one as in the others; but we are here to-day, if I at all understand the purpose of our coming, to affirm that yonder volume does not more truly declare to us the means of our salvation than it declares and defines that one preeminent agency, the CHURCH OF THE LIV- ING GOD, with its inspired message and its divinely instituted sacraments, and divinely appointed threefold ministry, as the visible agency and instrument by which that salvation is to be made known to men. And here, at any rate, whatever may be proper elsewhere, we are not called upon to go beyond this. How truly a human body may be so designated which is more or less maimed or mutilated is a question which theology may not find it easier to answer in one domain than science in another. But in an age when there is so much invertebrate belief, and when the tone of mutual complacency is so great that one man's deliro (I dream) is as good as another man's credo (I believe), it is as well in connection with such an occasion as this to understand the ground upon which we stand, and the point from which we set out. The cause of the reunion of Christendom will be greatly forwarded by the kindly temper which strives to under- stand, and scorns to misrepresent others; but it will not be helped by the mistaken amiability which seeks to misinterpret or consents to misrepresent ourselves. I have said this much, and have endeavored to say it with utmost plainness, because, unless I am mistaken, the exigency [22] io-Pt. Caslon O. S. solid] 3H?* ^limptOH I0re0j5 [401 words, 39 lines PRINTING TYPES choose, but moving steadily, and that not by the shaping of circumstances, but by the guiding of the Holy Ghost, toward that form and character which, having once taken on, it has now retained, whatever temporary obscuration of its primitive character or degradation of its high purpose may have befallen it, for well-nigh twenty centuries. And therefore we are here to disown the theory that the or- ganic form of Christianity, as the Catholic Church holds it and has perpetuated it, is merely the development and outcome of civil and secular institutions, amid which it originally found itself, any more than the Atonement on Calvary was the out- come of the Platonic or Aristotelian philosophies. Points of resemblance, points of contact, points of identity, even, we may own, here and there, it may be, in the one as in the others; but we are here to-day, if I at all understand the purpose of our coming, to affirm that yonder volume does not more truly declare to us the means of our salvation than it declares and defines that one preeminent agency, the CHURCH OF THE LIV- ING GOD, with its inspired message and its divinely instituted sacraments, and divinely appointed threefold ministry, as the visible agency and instrument by which that salvation is to be made known to men. And here, at any rate, whatever may be proper elsewhere, we are not called upon to go beyond this. How truly a human body may be so designated which is more or less maimed or mutilated is a question which theology may not find it easier to answer in one domain than science in another. But in an age when there is so much invertebrate belief, and when the tone of mutual complacency is so great that one man's deliro (I dream) is as good as another man's credo (I believe), it is as well in connection with such an occasion as this to understand the ground upon which we stand, and the point from which we set out. The cause of the reunion of Christendom will be lo-Pt. CaslonO.S. leaded] !>e {Plimpton H?ttS8 (346 words, 33 lines PRINTING TYPES choose, but moving steadily, and that not by the shaping of circumstances, but by the guiding of the Holy Ghost, toward that form and character which, having once taken on, it has now retained, whatever temporary ob- scuration of its primitive character or degradation of r- high purpose may have befallen it, for well-nigh tw centuries. And therefore we are here to disown the theory that the organic form of Christianity, as the Catholic Church holds it and has perpetuated it, is merely the develop- ment and outcome of civil and secular institutions, amid which it originally found itself, any more than the Atone- ment on Calvary was the outcome of the Platonic or Aristotelian philosophies. Points of resemblance, points of contact, points of identity, even, we may own, here and there, it may be, in the one as in the others; but we are here to-day, if I at all understand the purpose of our coming, to affirm that yonder volume does not more truly declare to us the means of our salvation than it de- clares and defines that one preeminent agency, the CHURCH OF THE LIVING GOD, with its inspired message and its divinely instituted sacraments, and divinely ap- pointed threefold ministry, as the visible agency and instrument by which that salvation is to be made known to men. And here, at any rate, whatever may be proper else- where, we are not called upon to go beyond this. How truly a human body may be so designated which is more or less maimed or mutilated is a question which theology may not find it easier to answer in one domain than science in another. But in an age when there is so much invertebrate belief, and when the tone of mutual com- placency is so great that one man's deliro (I dream) is as good as another man's credo (I believe), it is as well in connection with such an occasion as this to understand nPt.CaslonO.S. solid] l ImptOn re00 [323 words, 35 lines PRINTING TYPES choose, but moving steadily, and that not by the shaping of circumstances, but by the guiding of the Holy Ghost, toward that form and character which, having once *^ken on, it has now retained, whatever temporary ob- Mtion of its primitive character or degradation of its high purpose may have befallen it, for well-nigh twenty centuries. And therefore we are here to disown the theory that the organic form of Christianity, as the Catholic Church holds it and has perpetuated it, is merely the develop- ment and outcome of civil and secular institutions, amid which it originally found itself, any more than the Atone- ment on Calvary was the outcome of the Platonic or Aristotelian philosophies. Points of resemblance, points of contact, points of identity, even, we may own, here and there, it may be, in the one as in the others; but we are here to-day, if I at all understand the purpose of our coming, to affirm that yonder volume does not more truly declare to us the means of our salvation than it de- clares and defines that one preeminent agency, the CHURCH OF THE LIVING GOD, with its inspired message and its divinely instituted sacraments, and divinely ap- pointed threefold ministry, as the visible agency and instrument by which that salvation is to be made known to men. And here, at any rate, whatever may be proper else- where, we are not called upon to go beyond this. How truly a human body may be so designated which is more or less maimed or mutilated is a question which theology may not find it easier to answer in one domain than [25] ii Pt. Caslon O. S. leaded] 3f)f IPtimptOTl &K00 [270 words, 30 lines PRINTING TYPES choose, but moving steadily, and that not by the shaping of circumstances, but by the guiding of the Holy Ghost, toward that form and character which, having once taken on, it has now retained, whatever temporary obscuration of its primitive character or degradation of its high purpose may have befallen it, for well-nigh twenty centuries. And therefore we are here to disown the theory that the organic form of Christianity, as the Catho- lic Church holds it and has perpetuated it, is merely the development and outcome of civil and secular institutions, amid which it originally found itself, any more than the Atonement on Calvary was the outcome of the Platonic or Aristotelian philosophies. Points of resemblance, points of contact, points of identity, even, we may own, here and there, it may be, in the one as in the others; but we are here to-day, if I at all under- stand the purpose of our coming, to affirm that yonder volume does not more truly declare to us the means of our salvation than it declares and defines that one preeminent agency, the CHURCH OF THE LIVING GOD, with its inspired message and its divinely instituted sacraments, and divinely appointed threefold ministry, as the visible agency and instrument by which that salvation is to be made known to men. And here, at any rate, whatever may be proper elsewhere, we are not called upon to go beyond this. How truly a human body may be so desig- nated which is more or less maimed or mutilated is a question which theology may not find it easier 12-Pt.CaslonO.S.solid] W^t Plimpton flfree* [264 words, 32 lines PRINTING TYPES choose, but moving steadily, and that not by the shaping of circumstances, but by the guiding of the Holy Ghost, toward that form and character which, having once*taken on, it has now retained, whatever temporary obscuration of its [primitive character or degradation of its high purpose may have befallen it, for well-nigh twenty centuries. And therefore we are here to disown the theory that the organic form of Christianity, as the Catho- lic Church holds it and has perpetuated it, is merely the development and outcome of civil and secular institutions, amid which it originally found itself, any more than the Atonement on Calvary was the outcome of the Platonic or Aristotelian philosophies. Points of resemblance, points of contact, points of identity, even, we may own, here and there, it may be, in the one as in the others; but we are here to-day, if I at all under- stand the purpose of our coming, to affirm that yonder volume does not more truly declare to us the means of our salvation than it declares and defines that one preeminent agency, the CHURCH OF THE LIVING GOD, with its inspired message and its divinely instituted sacraments, and divinely appointed threefold ministry, as the visible agency and instrument by which that salvation is to be made known to men. [27] v, i2-Pt.CaslonO.S. leaded] &*)* JPIfmptOlt 3^te00 [218 words, 27 lines PRINTING TYPES choose, but moving steadily, and that not by the shaping of circumstances, but by the guiding of the Holy Ghost, ever toward that form and character which, having once been taken on, it has always retained, whatever the temporary obscuration of its primitive character or degradation of its high purpose may have befallen it, for well-nigh twenty centuries. And therefore we are here to disown the theory that the organic form of Chris- tianity, as the Catholic Church holds it and has perpetuated it, is merely the development and outcome of civil and secular institutions, amid which it originally found itself, any more than the Atonement on Calvary was the outcome of the Platonic or Aristotelian philosophies. Points of resemblance, points of contact, points of identity, even, we may own, here and there, it may be, in the one as in the others ; but we are here to-day, if I at all understand the purpose of our com- ing, to affirm that yonder volume does not more truly declare to us the means of our salvation than it declares and defines that one preeminent agency, the CHURCH OF THE LIVING GOD, with its inspired message [28] i4-Pt. Caslon O. S. solid! Sf>e JPUmpton @re*0 [iQi words, 27 lines PRINTING TYPES choose, but moving steadily, and that not by the shaping of circumstances, but by the guiding of the Holy Ghost, ever toward that form and character which, having once been taken on, it has always retained, whatever the temporary obscuration of its primitive character or degradation of its high purpose may have befallen it, for well-nigh twenty centuries. And therefore we are here to disown the theory that the organic form of Chris- tianity, as the Catholic Church holds it and has perpetuated it, is merely the development and outcome of civil and secular institutions, amid which it originally found itself, any more than the Atonement on Calvary was the outcome of the Platonic or Aristotelian philosophies. Points of resemblance, points of contact, points of identity, even, we may own, here and there, it may be, in the one as in the others ; but we are here to-day, if I at all understand the purpose of our com- ing, to affirm that yonder volume does not more truly declare to us the means of our [39] 14-Pt.CaslonO.S. leaded] Qty j^IimptOH I0re00 [171 words, 24 lines PRINTING TYPES choose, but moving steadily, and that not by the shaping of circum- stances, but by the guiding of the Holy Ghost, toward that form and character which, having once taken on, it has now retained, whatever temporary obscuration of its primi- tive character or degradation of its high purpose may have befallen it, for well-nigh twenty centuries. And therefore we are here to dis- own the theory that the organic form of Christianity, as the Catholic Church holds it and has perpetuated it, is merely the normal development and outcome of the civil and secular institutions, amid which it had origi- nally found itself, any more than the Atonement on Calvary was the out- come of the Platonic or Aristotelian philosophies. Points of resemblance i8-Pt.CaslonO.S. solid] Qfyt limptOtt te*fi [120 words, 21 lines PRINTING TYPES choose, but moving steadily, and that not by the shaping of circum- stances, but by the guiding of the Holy Ghost, toward that form and character which, having once taken on, it has now retained, whatever temporary obscuration of its primi- tive character or degradation of its high purpose may have befallen it, for well-nigh twenty centuries. And therefore we are here to dis- own the theory that the organic form of Christianity, as the Catholic Church holds it and has perpetuated it, is merely the normal development and outcome of the civil and secular institutions, amid which it originally found itself, any more than was the Atonement on Calvary the outcome [31] i8-Pt.CaslonO.S. leaded] 'Qtyt limpton flDreW lno words, 19 lines PRINTING TYPES choose, but moving steadily, and that not by the shaping of circum- stances, but by the guiding of the Holy Ghost, toward that form and character which, having once taken on, it has now retained, what- ever temporary obscuration of its primitive character or degrada- tion of its high purpose may have befallen it, for well-nigh twenty centuries. And therefore we are here to disown the theory that the organic form of Christianity, as the Catholic Church holds it and has perpet- uated it, is merely the development and outcome of civil and secular institutions, amid which it originally found itself, any more than the Atonement on Calvary was the outcome of the Platonic or Aristotelian philosophies. Points of resemblance, points of contact, points of identity, even, we may own, here and there, it may be, in the one as in the others; but we are here to-day, if I at all understand the pur- pose of our coming, to affirm that yonder volume does not more truly declare to us the means of our salvation than it declares and defines that one preeminent agency, the CHURCH OF THE LIVING GOD, with its inspired message and its divinely instituted sacraments, and divinely appointed threefold ministry, as the visible agency and instrument by which that salvation is to be made known to men. And here, at any rate, whatever may be proper elsewhere, we are not called upon to go beyond this. How truly a human body may be so designated which is more or less maimed or mutilated is a question which theology may not find it easier to answer in one domain than science in another. But in an age when there is so much invertebrate belief, and when the tone of mutual complacency is so great that one man's deliro (I dream) is as good as another man's credo (I believe), it is as well in connection with such an occasion as this to understand the ground upon which we stand, and the point from which we set out. The cause of the reunion of Christendom will be greatly forwarded by the kindly temper which strives to un- derstand, and scorns to misrepresent others; but it will not be helped by the mistaken amiability which seeks to misinterpret or consents to misrepresent ourselves. I have said this much, and have endeavored to say it with utmost plainness, because, unless I am mistaken, the exigency of the hour demands it. But I have done so mainly because it opens the way to that larger view of our text and of this occasion to which, if possible, we should ascend. For, first of all, and plainly enough, it belongs to us to remember on such an occasion as this that there is a past, and that we cannot divorce ourselves from it. Interesting and impressive as even the coldest criticism would be apt to own the service in which we are now engaged, neither its impressiveness nor its intrinsic appropriate- ness is the reason for our observance of those solemn features which compose it. We did not originate, extemporize, or invent them. Their claim upon us, first of all, resides in tnis: that they are a part of that venerable and scriptural inheritance of which God has put us in trust. In an age which, with its smart sciolism, considers itself [32] 8-Pt. Edinburgh, solid] $Z lmptOtt re00 [610 words, 49 lines PRINTING TYPES choose, but moving steadily, and that not by the shaping of circum- stances, but by the guiding of the Holy Ghost, toward that form and character which, having once taken on, it has now retained, what- ever temporary obscuration of its primitive character or degrada- tion of its high purpose may have befallen it, for well-nigh twenty centuries. And therefore we are here to disown the theory that the organic form of Christianity, as the Catholic Church holds it and has perpet- uated it, is merely the development and outcome of civil and secular institutions, amid which it originally found itself, any more than the Atonement on Calvary was the outcome of the Platonic or Aristotelian philosophies. Points of resemblance, points of contact, points of identity, even, we may own, here and there, it may be, in the one as in the others; but we are here to-day, if I at all understand the pur- pose of our coming, to affirm that yonder volume does not more truly declare to us the means of our salvation than it declares and defines that one preeminent agency, the CHURCH OF THE LIVING GOD, with its inspired message and its divinely instituted sacraments, and divinely appointed threefold ministry, as the visible agency and instrument by which that salvation is to be made known to men. And here, at any rate, whatever may be proper elsewhere, we are not called upon to go beyond this. How truly a human body may be so designated which is more or less maimed or mutilated is a question which theology may not find it easier to answer in one domain than science in another. But in an age when there is so much invertebrate belief, and when the tone of mutual complacency is so great that one man's ddiro (I dream) is as good as another man's credo (I believe), it is as well in connection with such an occasion as this to understand the ground upon which we stand, and the point from which we set out. The cause of the reunion of Christendom will be greatly forwarded by the kindly temper which strives to un- derstand, and scorns to misrepresent others; but it will not be helped by the mistaken amiability which seeks to misinterpret or consents to misrepresent ourselves. I have said this much, and have endeavored to say it with utmost plainness, because, unless I am mistaken, the exigency of the hour demands it. But I have done so mainly because it opens the way to that larger view of our text and of this occasion to which, if possible, we should ascend. [33] 8-Pt. Edinburgh, leaded] WC)t IimptOn J9re0j8 [435 words, 39 lines PRINTING TYPES choose, but moving steadily, and that not by the shaping of circumstances, but by the guiding of the Holy Ghost, toward that form and character which, having once taken on, it has now retained, whatever temporary obscuration of its primi- tive character or degradation of its high purpose may have befallen it, for well-nigh twenty centuries. And therefore we are here to disown the theory that the organic form of Christianity, as the Catholic Church holds it and has perpetuated it, is merely the development and out- come of civil and secular institutions, amid which it originally found itself, any more than the Atonement on Calvary was the outcome of the Platonic or Aristotelian philosophies. Points of resemblance, points of contact, points of identity, even, we may own, here and there, it may be, in the one as in the others; but we are here to-day, if I at all understand the purpose of our coming, to affirm that yonder volume does not more truly declare to us the means of our salvation than it declares and defines that one preeminent agency, the CHURCH OF THE LIVING GOD, with its inspired message and its divinely instituted sacraments, and divinely appointed threefold min- istry, as the visible agency and instrument by which that sal- vation is to be made known to men. And here, at any rate, whatever may be proper elsewhere, we are not called upon to go beyond this. How truly a hu- man body may be so designated which is more or less maimed or mutilated is a question which theology may not find it easier to answer in one domain than science in another. But in an age when there is so much invertebrate belief, and when the tone of mutual complacency is so great that one man's deliro (I dream) is as good as another man's credo (I believe), it is as well in connection with such an occasion as this to understand the ground upon which we stand, and the point from which we set out. The cause of the reunion of Christendom will be greatly forwarded by the kindly temper which strives to understand, and scorns to misrepresent others; but it will not be helped by the mistaken amiability which seeks to misinterpret or consents to misrepresent ourselves. I have said this much, and have endeavored to say it with utmost plainness, because, unless I am mistaken, the exigency [34] io-Pt. Edinburgh, solid] 3Ef>e Jj&IimptOn Iprr00 [401 words, 39 lines PRINTING TYPES choose, but moving steadily, and that not by the shaping of circumstances, but by the guiding of the Holy Ghost, toward that form and character which, having once taken on, it has now retained, whatever temporary obscuration of its primi- tive character or degradation of its high purpose may have befallen it, for well-nigh twenty centuries. And therefore we are here to disown the theory that the organic form of Christianity, as the Catholic Church holds it and has perpetuated it, is merely the development and out- come of civil and secular institutions, amid which it originally found itself, any more than the Atonement on Calvary was the outcome of the Platonic or Aristotelian philosophies. Points of resemblance, points of contact, points of identity, even, we may own, here and there, it may be, in the one as in the others; but we are here to-day, if I at all understand the purpose of our coming, to affirm that yonder volume does not more truly declare to us the means of our salvation than it declares and defines that one preeminent agency, the CHURCH OF THE LIVING GOD, with its inspired message and its divinely instituted sacraments, and divinely appointed threefold min- istry, as the visible agency and instrument by which that sal- vation is to be made known to men. And here, at any rate, whatever may be proper elsewhere, we are not called upon to go beyond this. How truly a hu- man body may be so designated which is more or less maimed or mutilated is a question which theology may not find it easier to answer in one domain than science in another. But in an age when there is so much invertebrate belief, and when the tone of mutual complacency is so great that one man's deliro (I dream) is as good as another man's credo (I believe), it is as well in connection with such an occasion as this to understand the ground upon which we stand, and the [35] io-Pt. Edinburgh, leaded] Qfyt TOltptOtl teW [331 words, 32 lines PRINTING TYPES choose, but moving steadily, and that not by the shap- ing of circumstances, but by the guiding of the Holy Ghost, toward that form and character which, having once taken on, it has now retained, whatever temporary obscuration of its primitive character or degradation of its high purpose may have befallen it, for well-nigh twenty centuries. And therefore we are here to disown the theory that the organic form of Christianity, as the Catholic Church holds it and has perpetuated it, is merely the develop- ment and outcome of civil and secular institutions, amid which it originally found itself, any more than the Atonement on Calvary was the outcome of the Platonic or Aristotelian philosophies. Points of resemblance, points of contact, points of identity, even, we may own, here and there, it may be, in the one as in the others; but we are here to-day, if I at all understand the pur- pose of our coming, to affirm that yonder volume does not more truly declare to us the means of our salvation than it declares and defines that one preeminent agency, the CHURCH OF THE LIVING GOD, with its inspired message and its divinely instituted sacraments, and divinely appointed threefold ministry, as the visible agency and instrument by which that salvation is to be made known to men. And here, at any rate, whatever may be proper else- where, we are not called upon to go beyond this. How truly a human body may be so designated which is more or less maimed or mutilated is a question which theology may not find it easier to answer in one domain than science in another. But in an age when there is so much invertebrate belief, and when the tone of mutual complacency is so great that one man's deliro (I dream) is as good as another man's credo (I believe), it is as well in connection with such an occasion as this [36] i i-Pt. Edinburgh, solid] WC)t JPlimptOtl re0)3 [32 1 words, 35 lines PRINTING TYPES choose, but moving steadily, and that not by the shap- ing of circumstances, but by the guiding of the Holy Ghost, toward that form and character which, having once taken on, it has now retained, whatever temporary obscuration of its primitive character or degradation of its high purpose may have befallen it, for well-nigh twenty centuries. And therefore we are here to disown the theory that the organic form of Christianity, as the Catholic Church holds it and has perpetuated it, is merely the develop- ment and outcome of civil and secular institutions, amid which it originally found itself, any more than the Atonement on Calvary was the outcome of the Platonic or Aristotelian philosophies. Points of resemblance, points of contact, points of identity, even, we may own, here and there, it may be, in the one as in the others; but we are here to-day, if I at all understand the pur- pose of our coming, to affirm that yonder volume does not more truly declare to us the means of our salvation than it declares and defines that one preeminent agency, the CHURCH OF THE LIVING GOD, with its inspired message and its divinely instituted sacraments, and divinely appointed threefold ministry, as the visible agency and instrument by which that salvation is to be made known to men. And here, at any rate, whatever may be proper else- where, we are not called upon to go beyond this. How truly a human body may be so designated which is more or less maimed or mutilated is a question which theology may not find it easier to answer in one domain [37] i i-Pt. Edinburgh, leaded] Qfyt JPltmptOIt flto00 [269 words, 30 lines PRINTING TYPES choose, but moving steadily, and that not by the shaping of circumstances, but by the guid- ing of the Holy Ghost, toward that form and character which, having once taken on, it has now retained, whatever temporary obscura- tion of its primitive character or degradation of its high purpose may have befallen it, for well-nigh twenty centuries. And therefore we are here to disown the theory that the organic form of Christianity, as the Catholic Church holds it and has per- petuated it, is merely the development and outcome of civil and secular institutions, amid which it originally found itself, any more than the Atonement on Calvary was the outcome of the Platonic or Aristotelian philosophies. Points of resemblance, points of contact, points of identity, even, we may own, here and there, it may be, in the one as in the others; but we are here to-day, if I at all understand the purpose of our coming, to affirm that yon- der volume does not more truly declare to us the means of our salvation than it declares and defines that one preeminent agency, the CHURCH OF THE LIVING GOD, with its in- spired message and its divinely instituted sac- raments, and divinely appointed threefold ministry, as the visible agency and instrument by which that salvation is to be made known to men. And here, at any rate, whatever may be proper elsewhere, we are not called upon to [38] 12-Pt. Edinburgh, solid] Qfyt BMimptOH rC00 [334 words, 32 lines PRINTING TYPES choose, but moving steadily, and that not by the shaping of circumstances, but by the guid- ing of the Holy Ghost, toward that form and character which, having once taken on, it has now retained, whatever temporary obscura- tion of its primitive character or degradation of its high purpose may have befallen it, for well-nigh twenty centuries. And therefore we are here to disown the theory that the organic form of Christianity, as the Catholic Church holds it and has per- petuated it, is merely the development and outcome of civil and secular institutions, amid which it originally found itself, any more than the Atonement on Calvary was the outcome of the Platonic or Aristotelian philosophies. Points of resemblance, points of contact, points of identity, even, we may own, here and there, it may be, in the one as in the others; but we are here to-day, if I at all understand the purpose of our coming, to affirm that yon- der volume does not more truly declare to us the means of our salvation than it declares and defines that one preeminent agency, the CHURCH OF THE LIVING GOD, with its in- spired message and its divinely instituted sac- raments, and divinely appointed threefold ministry, as the visible agency and instrument - [39] 12-Pt. Edinburgh, leaded] Sfje IPIimptOn tej50 [207 words, 28 lines PRINTING TYPES choose, but moving steadily, and that not by the shaping of circumstances, but by the guiding of the Holy Ghost, toward that form and character which, having once taken on, it has now retained, whatever temporary obscuration of its primi- tive character or degradation of its high purpose may have befallen it, for well-nigh twenty centuries. And therefore we are here to disown the theory that the organic form of Christianity, as the Catholic Church holds it and has perpetuated it, is merely the development and outcome of civil and secular institutions, amid which it originally found itself, any more than the Atonement on Calvary was the outcome of the Platonic or Aristotelian phi- losophies. Points of resemblance, points of contact, points of identity, even, we may own, here and there, it may be, in the one as in the others; but we are here to-day, if I at all understand the purpose of our coming, to affirm that yonder volume does not more truly declare to us the means of our salvation than it declares and defines that one preeminent agency, the CHURCH OF THE LIVING GOD, with its inspired message and its divinely instituted sacraments, and divinely appointed threefold ministry, as the visible agency and in- strument by which that salvation is to be made known to men. And here, at any rate, whatever may be proper elsewhere, we are not called upon to go beyond this. How truly a human body may be so designated which is more or less maimed or mutilated is a question which theology may not find it easier to answer in one domain than science in an- other. But in an age when there is so much invertebrate belief, and when the tone of mutual complacency is so great that one man's deliro (I dream) is as good as another man's credo (I believe), it is as well in connection with such an occasion as this to understand the ground upon which we stand, and the point from which we set out. The cause of the reunion of Christendom will be greatly forwarded by the kindly temper which strives to understand, and scorns to misrepresent others; but it will not be helped by the mis- taken amiability which seeks to misinterpret or consents to misrepresent ourselves. [40] io-Pt. Elzevir (i) solid] W& JJIfalptOH JSreW (379 words, 39 lines PRINTING TYPES choose, but moving steadily, and that not by the shaping of circumstances, but by the guiding of the Holy Ghost, toward that form and character which, having once taken on, it has now retained, whatever temporary obscuration of its primi- tive character or degradation of its high purpose may have befallen it, for well-nigh twenty centuries. And therefore we are here to disown the theory that the organic form of Christianity, as the Catholic Church holds it and has perpetuated it, is merely the development and outcome of civil and secular institutions, amid which it originally found itself, any more than the Atonement on Calvary was the outcome of the Platonic or Aristotelian phi- losophies. Points of resemblance, points of contact, points of identity, even, we may own, here and there, it may be, in the one as in the others; but we are here to-day, if I at all understand the purpose of our coming, to affirm that yonder volume does not more truly declare to us the means of our salvation than it declares and defines that one preeminent agency, the CHURCH OF THE LIVING GOD, with its inspired message and its divinely instituted sacraments, and divinely appointed threefold ministry, as the visible agency and in- strument by which that salvation is to be made known to men. And here, at any rate, whatever may be proper elsewhere, we are not called upon to go beyond this. How truly a human body may be so designated which is more or less maimed or mutilated is a question which theology may not find it easier to answer in one domain than science in an- other. But in an age when there is so much invertebrate belief, and when the tone of mutual complacency is so great that one man's deliro (I dream) is as good as another man's credo (I believe), it is as well in connection with such an [41] xo-Pt. Elzevir (i) leaded] fjC PmptOn re0S [318 words, 32 lines PRINTING TYPES choose, but moving steadily, and that not by the shaping of circumstances, but by the guiding of the Holy Ghost, toward that form and character which, having once taken on, it has now retained, whatever temporary obscuration of its primitive character or degradation of its high purpose may have befallen it, for well-nigh twenty centuries. And therefore we are here to disown the theory that the organic form of Christianity, as the Catholic Church holds it and has perpetuated it, is merely the develop- ment and outcome of civil and secular institutions, amid which it originally found itself, any more than the Atonement on Calvary was the outcome of the Platonic or Aristotelian philosophies. Points of re- semblance, points of contact, points of identity, even, we may own, here and there, it may be, in the one as in the others ; but we are here to-day, if I at all under- stand the purpose of our coming, to affirm that yonder volume does not more truly declare to us the means of our salvation than it declares and defines that one preeminent agency, the CHURCH OF THE LIVING GOD, with its inspired message and its divinely instituted sacraments, and divinely appointed threefold ministry, as the visible agency and instrument by which that salvation is to be made known to men. And here, at any rate, whatever may be proper else- where, we are not called upon to go beyond this. How truly a human body may be so designated which is more or less maimed or mutilated is a question which theology may not find it easier to answer in one do- main than science in another. But in an age when there is so much invertebrate belief, and when the tone of mutual complacency is so great that one man's deliro (I dream) is as good as another man's credo (I believe), it is as well in connection with such an occasion as this to understand the ground upon which we stand, and the point from which we set out. The cause of the reunion of Christendom will be greatly forwarded by the kindly temper which strives to understand, and to-Pt. Elzevir (2) solid] ^t mptOtt te*8 [356 words, 39 lines PRINTING TYPES choose, but moving steadily, and that not by the shaping of circumstances, but by the guiding of the Holy Ghost, toward that form and character which, having once taken on, it has now retained, whatever temporary obscuration of its primitive character or degradation of its high purpose may have befallen it, for well-nigh twenty centuries. And therefore we are here to disown the theory that the organic form of Christianity, as the Catholic Church holds it and has perpetuated it, is merely the develop- ment and outcome of civil and secular institutions, amid which it originally found itself, any more than the Atonement on Calvary was the outcome of the Platonic or Aristotelian philosophies. Points of re- semblance, points of contact, points of identity, even, we may own, here and there, it may be, in the one as in the others; but we are here to-day, if I at all under- stand the purpose of our coming, to affirm that yonder volume does not more truly declare to us the means of our salvation than it declares and defines that one preeminent agency, the CHURCH OF THE LIVING GOD, with its inspired message and its divinely instituted sacraments, and divinely appointed threefold ministry, as the visible agency and instrument by which that salvation is to be made known to men. And here, at any rate, whatever may be proper else- where, we are not called upon to go beyond this. How truly a human body may be so designated which is more or less maimed or mutilated is a question which theology may not find it easier to answer in one do- main than science in another. But in an age when there is so much invertebrate belief, and when the tone [43] io-Pt. Elzevir (2) leaded] Qtyt Plimpton j^te00 [287 words, 32 lines PRINTING TYPES choose, but moving steadily, and that not by the shaping of circumstances, but by the guiding of the Holy Ghost, toward that form and character which, having once taken on, it has now retained, whatever temporary obscuration of its primi- tive character or degradation of its high purpose may have befallen it, for well-nigh twenty centuries. And therefore we are here to disown the theory that the organic form of Christianity, as the Catholic Church holds it and has perpetuated it, is merely the development and outcome of civil and secular institutions, amid which it originally found itself, any more than the Atonement on Calvary was the outcome of the Platonic or Aristotelian phi- losophies. Points of resemblance, points of contact, points of identity, even, we may own, here and there, it may be, in the one as in the others; but we are here to-day, if I at all understand the purpose of our coming, to affirm that yonder volume does not more truly declare to us the means of our salvation than it declares and defines that one preeminent agency, the CHURCH OF THE LIVING GOD, with its inspired message and its divinely instituted sacraments, and divinely appointed threefold ministry, as the visible agency and in- strument by which that salvation is to be made known to men. And here, at any rate, whatever may be proper elsewhere, we are not called upon to go beyond this. How truly a human body may be so designated which is more or less maimed or mutilated is a question which theology may not find it easier to answer in one domain than science in an- other. But in an age when there is so much invertebrate belief, and when the tone of mutual complacency is so great that one man's deliro (I dream) is as good as another man's credo (I believe), it is as well in connection with such an occasion as this to understand the ground upon which we stand, and the point from which we set out. The cause of the reunion of Christendom will be greatly forwarded by the kindly temper which strives to understand, and scorns to misrepresent others; but it will not be helped by the mis- taken amiability which seeks to misinterpret or consents to misrepresent ourselves. [44] 0-26 with 10-31 solid] !>e Plimpton IPKM [379 words, 30 lines PRINTING TYPES choose, but moving steadily, and that not by the shaping of circumstances, but by the guiding of the Holy Ghost, toward that form and character which, having once taken on, it has now retained, whatever temporary obscuration of its primi- tive character or degradation of its high purpose may have befallen it, for well-nigh twenty centuries. And therefore we are here to disown the theory that the organic form of Christianity, as the Catholic Church holds it and has perpetuated it, is merely the development and outcome of civil and secular institutions, amid which it originally found itself, any more than the Atonement on Calvary was the outcome of the Platonic or Aristotelian phi- losophies. Points of resemblance, points of contact, points of identity, even, we may own, here and there, it may be, in the one as in the others; but we are here to-day, if I at all understand the purpose of our coming, to affirm that yonder volume does not more truly declare to us the means of our salvation than it declares and defines that one preeminent agency, the CHURCH OF THE LIVING GOD, with its inspired message and its divinely instituted sacraments, and divinely appointed threefold ministry, as the visible agency and in- strument by which that salvation is to be made known to men. And here, at any rate, whatever may be proper elsewhere, we are not called upon to go beyond this. How truly a human body may be so designated which is more or less maimed or mutilated is a question which theology may not find it easier to answer in one domain than science hi an- other. But in an age when there is so much invertebrate belief, and when the tone of mutual complacency is so great that one man's deliro (I dream) is as good as another man's credo (I believe), it is as well in connection with such an [45] 9-36 with 10-31 leaded] ST&e SJIimptOtl BJtfBB [317 words, 32 lines PRINTING TYPES choose, but moving steadily, and that not by the shaping of circumstances, but by the guiding of the Holy Ghost, toward that form and character which, having once taken on, it has now retained, whatever temporary obscuration of its primitive char- acter or degradation of its high purpose may have befallen it, for well-nigh twenty centuries. And therefore we are here to disown the theory that the or- ganic form of Christianity, as the Catholic Church holds it and has perpetuated it, is merely the development and outcome of civil and secular institutions, amid which it originally found itself, any more than the Atonement on Calvary was the out- come of the Platonic or Aristotelian philosophies. Points of resemblance, points of contact, points of identity, even, we may own, here and there, it may be, in the one as in the others; but we are here to-day, if I at all understand the purpose of our coming, to affirm that yonder volume does not more truly de- clare to us the means of our salvation than it declares and defines that one preeminent agency, the Church of the Living God, with its inspired message and its divinely instituted sacra- ments, and divinely appointed threefold ministry, as the visible agency and instrument by which that salvation is to be made known to men. And here, at any rate, whatever may be proper elsewhere, we are not called upon to go beyond this. How truly a human body may be so designated which is more or less maimed or mutilated is a question which theology may not find it easier to answer in one domain than science in another. But in an age when there is so much invertebrate belief, and when the tone of mutual complacency is so great that one man's deliro (I dream) is as good as another man's credo (I believe), it is as well in connection with such an occasion as this to understand the ground upon which we stand, and the point from which we set out. The cause of the reunion of Christendom will be greatly forwarded by the kindly temper which strives to under- stand, and scorns to misrepresent others ; but it will not be helped by the mistaken amiability which seeks to misinterpret or consents to misrepresent ourselves. I have said this much, and have endeavored to say it with utmost plainness, because, unless I am mistaken, the exigency of the hour demands it. But I have done so mainly because it opens the way to that larger view of our text and of this occa- sion to which, if possible, we should ascend. For, first of all, and plainly enough, it belongs to us to remem- ber on such an occasion as this that there is a past, and that we cannot divorce ourselves from it. Interesting and impressive as even the coldest criticism would be apt to own the service in which we are now engaged, neither its impressiveness nor its intrinsic appropriateness is the reason for our observance of those solemn features which compose it. We did not originate, [46] 8-Pt. Antique O. S. solid] &t)t &Itmpton ^TC00 [513 words, 4 9 lines PRINTING TYPES choose, but moving steadily, and that not by the shaping of circumstances, but by the guiding of the Holy Ghost, toward that form and character which, having once taken on, it has now retained, whatever temporary obscuration of its primitive char- acter or degradation of its high purpose may have befallen it, for well-nigh twenty centuries. And therefore we are here to disown the theory that the or- ganic form of Christianity, as the Catholic Church holds it and has perpetuated it, is merely the development and outcome of civil and secular institutions, amid which it originally found itself, any more than the Atonement on Calvary was the out- come of the Platonic or Aristotelian philosophies. Points of resemblance, points of contact, points of identity, even, we may own, here and there, it may be, in the one as in the others; but we are here to-day, if I at all understand the purpose of our coming, to affirm that yonder volume does not more truly de- clare to us the means of our salvation than it declares and defines that one preeminent agency, the Church of the Living God, with its inspired message and its divinely instituted sacra- ments, and divinely appointed threefold ministry, as the visible agency and instrument by which that salvation is to be made known to men. And here, at any rate, whatever may be proper elsewhere, we are not called upon to go beyond this. How truly a human body may be so designated which is more or less maimed or mutilated is a question which theology may not find it easier to answer in one domain than science in another. But in an age when there is so much invertebrate belief, and when the tone of mutual complacency is so great that one man's deliro (I dream) is as good as another man's credo (I believe), it is as well in connection with such an occasion as this to understand the ground upon which we stand, and the point from which we set out. The cause of the reunion of Christendom will be greatly forwarded by the kindly temper which strives to under- stand, and scorns to misrepresent others ; but it will not be helped by the mistaken amiability which seeks to misinterpret or consents to misrepresent ourselves. I have said this much, and have endeavored to say it with utmost plainness, because, unless I am mistaken, the exigency [47] 8-Pt. Antique O.S. leaded] Qfyt HJIiltlptOtl te00 [401 words, 39 lines PRINTING TYPES choose, but moving steadily, and that not by the shaping of circumstances, but by the guiding of the Holy Ghost, toward that form and character which, having once taken on, it has now retained, whatever temporary obscuration of its primitive character or degradation of its high purpose may have befallen it, for well-nigh twenty centuries. And therefore we are here to disown the theory that the organic form of Christianity, as the Catho- lic Church holds it and has perpetuated it, is merely the development and outcome of civil and secular institutions, amid which it originally found itself, any more than the Atonement on Calvary was the outcome of the Platonic or Aristotelian philosophies. Points of resemblance, points of contact, points of identity, even, we may own, here and there, it may be, in the one as in the others ; but we are here to-day, if I at all under- stand the purpose of our coming, to affirm that yonder volume does not more truly declare to us the means of our salvation than it declares and defines that one preeminent agency, the Church of the Living God, with its inspired message and its divinely instituted sacraments, and divinely appointed threefold ministry, as the visible agency and instrument by which that salvation is to be made known to men. And here, at any rate, whatever may be proper elsewhere, we are not called upon to go beyond this. How truly a human body may be so desig- nated which is more or less maimed or mutilated is a question which theology may not find it easier to answer in one domain than science in another. But in an age when there is so much invertebrate belief, and when the tone of mutual complacency is so great that one man's deliro (I dream) is as good as another man's credo (I believe), it is as well in connection with such an occasion as this to understand the ground upon which we stand, [48] io-Pt. Antique O. S. solid] Qty ^limptOH 231*03 [329 words, 39 lines PRINTING TYPES choose, but moving steadily, and that not by the shaping of circumstances, but by the guiding of the Holy Ghost, toward that form and character which, having once taken on, it has now retained, whatever temporary obscuration of its primitive character or degradation of its high purpose may have befallen it, for well-nigh twenty centuries. And therefore we are here to disown the theory that the organic form of Christianity, as the Catho- lic Church holds it and has perpetuated it, is merely the development and outcome of civil and secular institutions, amid which it originally found itself, any more than the Atonement on Calvary was the outcome of the Platonic or Aristotelian philosophies. Points of resemblance, points of contact, points of identity, even, we may own, here and there, it may be, in the one as in the others ; but we are here to-day, if I at all under- stand the purpose of our coming, to affirm that yonder volume does not more truly declare to us the means of our salvation than it declares and defines that one preeminent agency, the Church of the Living God, with its inspired message and its divinely instituted sacraments, and divinely appointed threefold ministry, as the visible agency and instrument by which that salvation is to be made known to men. And here, at any rate, whatever may be proper elsewhere, we are not called upon to go beyond this. How truly a human body may be so desig- nated which is more or less maimed or mutilated is a question which theology may not find it easier [49] lo-Pt. Antique O.S. leaded] 6e {Plimpton IPrfSB [264 words, 3 a lines PRINTING TYPES choose, but moving steadily, and that not by the shaping of circumstances, but by the guiding of the Holy Ghost, toward that form and character which, having once taken on, it has retained, whatever the temporary obscuration of its primitive character or degradation of its high pur- pose may have befallen it, for well-nigh twenty centuries. And therefore we are here to disown the theory that the organic form of Christian- ity, as the Catholic Church holds it and has always perpetuated it, is merely the de- velopment and outcome of civil and secu- lar institutions, amid which it originally found itself, any more than the Atonement on Calvary was the outcome of the Pla- tonic or Aristotelian philosophies. Points of resemblance, points of contact, points of identity, even, we may own, here and there, it may be, in the one as in the others; but we are here to-day, if I at all under- stand the purpose of our coming, to affirm that yonder volume does not more truly declare to us the means of our salvation than it declares and defines that one pre- eminent agency, the Church of the Liv- ing God, with its inspired message and its divinely instituted sacraments, and di- vinely appointed threefold ministry, as the visible agency and instrument by which that salvation is to be made known to [50] 12-Pt. Antique O. S. solid] &$ Ittttpton re00 [217 words, 32 lines PRINTING TYPES choose, but moving steadily, and that not by the shaping of circumstances, but. by the guiding of the Holy Ghost, toward that form and character which, having once taken on, it has retained, whatever the temporary obscuration of its primitive character or degradation of its high pur- pose may have befallen it, for well-nigh twenty centuries. And therefore we are here to disown the theory that the organic form of Christian- ity, as the Catholic Church holds it and has always perpetuated it, is merely the de- velopment and outcome of civil and secu- lar institutions, amid which it originally found itself, any more than the Atonement on Calvary was the outcome of the Pla- tonic or Aristotelian philosophies. Points of resemblance, points of contact, points of identity, even, we may own, here and there, it may be, in the one as in the others ; but we are here to-day, if I at all under- stand the purpose of our coming, to affirm that yonder volume does not more truly declare to us the means of our salvation than it declares and defines that one pre- eminent agency, the Church of the Living xa-Pt. Antique O.S. leaded] Sf>e BMimptOH fl*re00 [ig6 words, 27 lines PRINTING TYPES choose, but moving steadily, and that not by the shaping of cir- cumstances, but by the guiding of the Holy Ghost, toward that form and character which, having once taken on, it has now retained, whatever temporary obscuration of its primitive char- acter or degradation of its high purpose may have befallen it, for well-nigh twenty centuries. And therefore we are here to disown the theory that the organic form of Christianity, as the Catholic Church holds it and has perpetuated it, is merely the development and outcome of civil and secular institutions, amid which it originally found itself, any more than the Atonement on Calvary was the outcome of the Platonic or Aristotelian philosophies. Points of resemblance, points of contact, points of identity, even, we may own, here and there, it may be, in the one as in the others; but we are here to-day, if I at all understand the purpose of our coming, to affirm that yonder volume does not more truly declare to us the means of our salvation than it declares and defines that one preeminent agency, the Church of the Living God, with its in- spired message and its divinely instituted sacraments, and divinely appointed threefold ministry, as the visible agency and instru- ment by which that salvation is to be made known to men. And here, at any rate, whatever may be proper elsewhere, we are not called upon to go beyond this. How truly a human body may be so designated which is more or less maimed or mutilated is a question which theology may not find it easier to answer in one domain than science in another. But in an age when there is so much invertebrate belief, and when the tone of mutual complacency is so great that one man's deliro (I dream) is as good as another man's credo (I believe), it is as well in connection with such an occasion as this to understand the ground upon which we stand, and the point from which we set out. The cause of the reunion of Christendom will be greatly forwarded by the kindly temper which strives to under- stand, and scorns to misrepresent others ; but it will not be helped by the mistaken amiability which seeks to misinterpret or con- sents to misrepresent ourselves. I have said this much, and have endeavored to say it with utmost plainness, because, unless I am mistaken, the exigency of the hour demands it. But I have done so mainly because it [52] io-Pt. Cheltenham solid] Ulty TOnpton IPttM [414 words, 30 lines PRINTING TYPES choose, but moving steadily, and that not by the shaping of cir- cumstances, but by the guiding of the Holy Ghost, toward that form and character which, having once taken on, it has now retained, whatever temporary obscuration of its primitive char- acter or degradation of its high purpose may have befallen it, for well-nigh twenty centuries. And therefore we are here to disown the theory that the organic form of Christianity, as the Catholic Church holds it and has perpetuated it, is merely the development and outcome of civil and secular institutions, amid which it originally found itself, any more than the Atonement on Calvary was the outcome of the Platonic or Aristotelian philosophies. Points of resemblance, points of contact, points of identity, even, we may own, here and there, it may be, in the one as in the others; but we are here to-day, if I at all understand the purpose of our coming, to affirm that yonder volume does not more truly declare to us the means of our salvation than it declares and defines that one preeminent agency, the Church of the Living God, with its in- spired message and its divinely instituted sacraments, and divinely appointed threefold ministry, as the visible agency and instru- ment by which that salvation is to be made known to men. And here, at any rate, whatever may be proper elsewhere, we are not called upon to go beyond this. How truly a human body may be so designated which is more or less maimed or mutilated is a question which theology may not find it easier to answer in one domain than science in another. But in an age when there is so much invertebrate belief, and when the tone of mutual complacency is so great that one man's deliro (I dream) is as good as another man's credo (I believe), it is as well in connection with such an occasion as this to understand the ground upon which we stand, and the point from which we set out. The cause of the reunion of Christendom will be [53] io-Pt. Cheltenham leaded] Qfyt JMimptOIt te0!8 [346 words, 3 a lines PRINTING TYPES choose, but moving steadily, and that not by the shaping of circumstances, but by the guiding of the Holy Ghost, toward that form and character which, having once taken on, it has now retained, whatever temporary obscuration of its primitive character or degradation of its high purpose may have befallen it, for well-nigh twenty centuries. And therefore we are here to disown the theory that the organic form of Christianity, as the Catholic Church holds it and has perpetuated it, is merely the development and outcome of civil and secular institutions, amid which it originally found itself, any more than the Atonement on Calvary was the outcome of the Platonic or Aristotelian philosophies. Points of resemblance, points of contact, points of identity, even, we may own, here and there, it may be, in the one as in the others ; but we are here to- day, if I at all understand the purpose of our coming, to affirm that yonder volume does not more truly declare to us the means of our salvation than it declares and defines that one preeminent agency, the Church of the Living God, with its inspired message and its divinely instituted sacraments, and divinely appointed threefold ministry, as the visible agency and instrument by which that salvation is to be made known to men. And here, at any rate, whatever may be proper else- where, we are not called upon to go beyond this. How truly a human body may be so designated which is more or less maimed or mutilated is a question which theology may not find it easier to answer in one domain than science in another. But in an age when there is so much inverte- brate belief, and when the tone of mutual complacency is so great that one man's deliro (I dream) is as good as an- other man's credo (I believe), it is as well in connection with such an occasion as this to understand the ground upon which we stand, and the point from which we set out. The cause of the reunion of Christendom will be [54] n-Pt. Cheltenham solid] 3Tf>e limpton J3r0!8 [ 34 6 words, 35 lines PRINTING TYPES choose, but moving steadily, and that not by the shaping of circumstances, but by the guiding of the Holy Ghost, toward that form and character which, having once taken on, it has now retained, whatever temporary obscuration of its primitive character or degradation of its high purpose may have befallen it, for well-nigh twenty centuries. And therefore we are here to disown the theory that the organic form of Christianity, as the Catholic Church holds it and has perpetuated it, is merely the development and outcome of civil and secular institutions, amid which it originally found itself, any more than the Atonement on Calvary was the outcome of the Platonic or Aristotelian philosophies. Points of resemblance, points of contact, points of identity, even, we may own, here and there, it may be, in the one as in the others; but we are here to- day, if I at all understand the purpose of our coming, to affirm that yonder volume does not more truly declare to us the means of our salvation than it declares and defines that one preeminent agency, the Church of the Living God, with its inspired message and its divinely instituted sacraments, and divinely appointed threefold ministry, as the visible agency and instrument by which that salvation is to be made known to men. And here, at any rate, whatever may be proper else- where, we are not called upon to go beyond this. How truly a human body may be so designated which is more or less maimed or mutilated is a question which theology may not find it easier to answer in one domain than science in another. But in an age when there is so much inverte- brate belief, and when the tone of mutual complacency is [55] ii-Pt. Cheltenham leaded] &ty UmptOlt 10)80 [292 words, 30 lines PRINTING TYPES choose, but moving steadily, and that ftot by the shaping of circumstances, but by the guiding of the Holy Ghost, toward that form and character which, having once taken on, it has now retained, whatever temporary ob- scuration of its primitive character or degradation of its high purpose may have befallen it, for well-nigh twenty centuries. And therefore we are here to disown the theory that the organic form of Christianity, as the Catholic Church holds it and has perpetuated it, is merely the development and outcome of civil and secular institu- tions, amid which it originally found itself, any more than the Atonement on Calvary was the outcome of the Platonic or Aristotelian philosophies. Points of re- semblance, points of contact, points of identity, even, we may own, here and there, it may be, in the one as in the others ; but we are here to-day, if I at all under- stand the purpose of our coming, to affirm that yonder volume does not more truly declare to us the means of our salvation than it declares and defines that one pre- eminent agency, the Church of the Living God, with its inspired message and its divinely instituted sacra- ments, and divinely appointed threefold ministry, as the visible agency and instrument by which that salvation is to be made known to men. And here, at any rate, whatever may be proper elsewhere, we are not called upon to go beyond this. How truly a human body may be so designated which is more or less maimed or mutilated is a question which theology may not find it easier to answer in one domain than science in another. But in an age when there is so much invertebrate belief, and when the tone of mu- [56] i2-Pt. Cheltenham solid] 3T|>e JPItmpton 3^te00 [290 words, 32 lines PRINTING TYPES choose, but moving steadily, and that not by the shaping of circumstances, but by the guiding of the Holy Ghost, toward that form and character which, having once taken on, it has now retained, whatever temporary ob- scuration of its primitive character or degradation of its high purpose may have befallen it, for well-nigh twenty centuries. And therefore we are here to disown the theory that the organic form of Christianity, as the Catholic Church holds it and has perpetuated it, is merely the development and outcome of civil and secular institu- tions, amid which it originally found itself, any more than the Atonement on Calvary was the outcome of the Platonic or Aristotelian philosophies. Points of re- semblance, points of contact, points of identity, even, we may own, here and there, it may be, in the one as in the others; but we are here to-day, if I at all under- stand the purpose of our coming, to affirm that yonder volume does not more truly declare to us the means of our salvation than it declares and defines that one pre- eminent agency, the Church of the Living God, with its inspired message and its divinely instituted sacra- ments, and divinely appointed threefold ministry, as the visible agency and instrument by which that salvation is to be made known to men. And here, at any rate, whatever may be proper elsewhere, we are not called upon to go beyond this. How truly a human body may be so designated which [57] xa-Pt. 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