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High Churchmen, or Ritualists, Broad Churchmen, or Liberals, 

 and Low Churchmen, or Evangelicals what some wit has 

 called "the Attitudinarians, Latitudinarians, and Platitudina- 

 rians" of the Establishment? 



The difficulty is very real and very great far the greatest 

 difficulty, I believe, in social organisation. It is existing and 

 active now a serious obstacle to improvement, a source of 

 vexation and annoyance, a perpetual conflict in every grade of 

 society. Toleration is often but indifference the exclusion of 

 all religious subjects from conversation in general society is a 

 truce and not a peace. Archbishop Manning may be willing 

 to work with Anglicans, Unitarians, and Quakers, in some 

 great philanthropic object, such as the suppression of drunken- 

 ness ; but we cannot expect the conflicting elements of religious 

 sectarianism to come peacefully together in industrial and social 

 organisations. 



Still, in some way, the difficulty must be met and overcome, 

 even for peace in our actual social conditions. If the Almighty 

 has revealed a religion to man, it is the true one and excludes 

 all others. There cannot be two conflicting truths, not to speak 

 of a score or a hundred. The right rejects and excludes the 

 wrong. If there be a Church, or organic Society, holding the 

 truth, and divinely authorised to teach it, of course there can 

 be but one such body, and that one must be infallible, or it. 

 might lead men into error, which would destroy its whole func- 

 tion as a Church with authority to settle controversies. 



If such a Church could be found, and the strong ad earnest 

 injunctions of the scriptures to be of the same mind, of the 

 same doctrine, with one Lord, one faith, one baptism, could be 

 obeyed, then all Christians, surely, could unite in one society, 

 and religion would be the strong bond to hold it peacefully 

 together, and the love to purify, and ennoble, and sanctify 

 it, and make earth what it should be the foretaste of the 

 blessedness of heaven. If religion be the bond that binds men 



