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seen and read it. When we are making a 



clever argument for our little view of 

 Apostolic Succession, or of Baptism by one 

 mode alone, or of the primitive form of 

 Church government, or of some fragmentary 

 aspect of the doctrine of the Incarnation, it 

 will be well for us to remember that, sitting 

 in the pews there may easily be some quiet 

 man or woman who watches our cheap and 

 mechanical manipulation of isolated texts, 

 or our utterly unscholarly reading of some 

 disputed passage, with a silent surprise, in 

 which humor and sorrow are mixed in equal 

 proportions. 



Such men and women are, though they 

 know it not, the heralds of a new era. 

 That era, however superstition, or ignor- 

 ance, or inherited prejudices may hinder it, 

 will bring with it a new and nobler concep- 

 tion of the office of the Holy Scriptures, 

 and. of the way in which men are to deal 

 with them. And when it shall come, one 

 of its best fruits will be that new and larger 

 light in winch will be set this whole subject 

 of Christian unity. Heretofore we have 

 magnified our differences; henceforward 

 we shall rather magnify our agreements ; 

 and reading the story of the dawning life 



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