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the Lord, ' well did Isni:ih ]iropliesy of you, sayin.c;: Tliis jx-opln 

 honoreth me -with lips and liaiids, but their heart is far from me.' 



*' Get ye behind me, ye men of the letter! Get ye behind me, 

 yc foes of the human race ! Adirrmntur omnihuH homlitihnx^ :is 

 St. Paul saiil : ' they arc contrary lo all men.' And thou. Lord 

 Jesus, arise, my Saviour and my God, — thou who in all thy ,i;en- 

 tle life wast but twice in anu^er ! — Jesus had no wrath ai^ainst poor 

 sinners. He sat at their ta])le, and when the adulterous woman 

 fell at his feet, blushini^ with shame and weepin:; with remorse, 

 he lifted her, and bade her Go in peace and sin no more. lie had 

 no an_ii:er aqainst heretics and schismatics ; he sat upon Jacob's 

 well, beside the Samaritan woman, and announced to her, with 

 the salvation which is of the Jews, the worship which is in spirit 

 and in truth. But twice was Jesus angry : once, scourge in hand, 

 against those who sold the things of God in the temple; and 

 once, anathema in mouth, against those who perverted the things 

 of God in the law. 



" Arise, then, gentle Lamb, in tin' pacific wrath, against the 

 enemies of all men, and the real enemies of the kingdom of God — 

 arise, and drive them from the temple ! 



" Thus it was that the S3'nagogue iicrished, and the Christian 

 Church arose. 



" We arc about to separate, Gentlemen, for one more year. 

 Suffer me, at this moment, to entreat you to unite with me in an 

 act of consecration to this kingdom of God — this Church, whose 

 outer courts wc have trodden together. Christianity is not a 

 thing of to-day nor of yesterday. It is not only of the historical 

 epoch of Jesus Christ and the apostles : it is of David, of Moses, 

 of Abraham — it is of Adam, the father, king, pontifl', of us all. 

 Li this one religion, then — this CJiurch, whose form may change, 

 but whose foundation abideth unchangeable — ah! Gentlemen, 

 and — suffer me this word, for it is in my heart — friends, brothers, 

 let us consecrate ourselves, as did the prophets, to the love and 

 service of tlie kingdom of God. The kingdom of God is formally 

 constituted in Christianil}', in the Church Catholic, Apostolic, and 

 Koman ; but this Church, as I was but just now saying, must 

 ever go on changing from form to form, from glory to glory — 

 i ransformamur daritatc in claritatem — until, with all the race of 

 man, it shall have attained the stature of the perfect man in Jesus 

 Christ. 



