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and which thus, ere long, maimed that 

 Faith and practically disowned that Order 

 in the interest of a single dogma. In this 

 aspect of it, the history of the disintegration 

 of Christendom is at once startling and 

 tragic. The historic Unity was openly and 

 recklessly flouted. The historic Faith was 

 at once narrowed and perverted ; the his- 

 toric Order, corrupt, tyrannical, grotesquely 

 distorted often in its practical exhibitions, 

 was dises teemed and finally disowned. And 

 so there has come to pass the spectacle of a 

 divided Christendom, of a household no 

 longer at unity in itself, rent and torn with 

 a thousand frivolous dissensions, a spectacle 

 of blindness and self-will for the warning 

 of all future generations. But along with 

 such a condition of things, or rather as a 

 consequence of it, there has come the awak- 

 ening of another and very different spirit. 

 That study of Holy Scripture, to which I 

 have just referred, and along with it of the 

 records of those times which followed most 

 closely upon the days and the acts of the 

 apostles, has been fruitful to our own gen- 

 eration as to none other that has preceded 

 it. The historic method, which has been 

 found so helpful in other departments of 



