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remote places, where the state of affairs is 

 not known, those authorities manage to 

 provide them with goodly sums of money 

 to sink. It is by this flagitious anarchy 

 that Protestants continually play into the 

 hands of the Catholic Church. We shall 

 have increasing cause to dread papal su- 

 premacy in America so long as our religious 

 resources are thus foolishly and criminally 

 frittered away. Were denominations less 

 far apart, this evil would not be. Nothing 

 is responsible for it but our painful prefer- 

 ence of Shibboleth to salvation. Our 

 foreign missionaries have set us a noble 

 example in this matter. They parcel out 

 the field, and no man builds on another's 

 foundation. We shall one day learn the 

 same wisdom at home. 



This persistent idea of the power of the 

 keys at first seems hard to understand. 

 It goes back, however, to the notion of 

 a divine ecclesiastical legitimacy. Most 

 Protestants are of the opinion, or at least 

 have been until recently, that Clrrist, in 

 the New Testament, ordains a given fixed 

 ecclesiastical polity for all time. The 

 Papists, and, in part, the Episcopalians, 

 locate the divine authority for their polity 

 



