72 CHURCH UNITY 



authoritative polity, itself alone to have 

 the power of the keys, and berates outside 

 Christians for not coming within the safe 

 fold which God has set it to keep. " I 

 am the Church," it says, " and all the rest 

 of you, to be sure of God's favor, must 

 change base and come over and unite 

 with me." 



In Iris attitude toward the Greek Church 

 and toward Protestants, the Pope is a sec- 

 tary; yet, aware of the inconsistency of 

 assuming for his portion of Christendom 

 the title of The One Church and yet ad- 

 mitting the existence of other Christians, 

 he has always betrayed a tendency to 

 ignore the existence of other Christians 

 altogether. Catholics in general are with 

 him in this ; they do not like to recognize 

 Christians who are not of their church, 

 though, to their credit be it said, they 

 rarely, if ever, explicitly deny that such 

 exist. 



It is the great vice of denominationalism 

 that it tends to lapse into sectarianism, to 

 ignore the Church's unity, so leading to 

 the sin of schism. This is the character- 

 istic guilt of the ultra-Protestant world 

 to-day, of Lutherans, Baptists, Congrega- 



