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can bo long in doubt as to what its lesson 

 is concerning that which has been the great 



source of all our differences, the com- 

 munion of the Roman Obedience. "That 

 body is indeed to many, many minds," as 

 Dr. Edward Washburn has impressively 

 phrased it "a source of vague terror, to 

 many others a miracle of power which 

 compels a reluctant admiration. It seems 

 to stand, after all the battle of these cen- 

 turies, as impregnable as ever; it covers 

 this new world with churches; it plots 

 new leagues in Europe ; and while it has 

 lost Italy, and its power is crippled in 

 Austria, Spain, and France, it challenges 

 the strength of Germany. It could compel 

 obedience even in the face of an old 

 Catholic secession; it draws its converts 

 from Protestant England, and dreams of 

 the triumph, there as everywhere, of 

 Ultramontanism. But surely if we soberly 

 read history we need not be disturbed by 

 such facts. It is not strange that such a 

 power survives. It lives first of all by its 

 traditional hold on the religious faith 

 and habit of a large part of Christendom. 

 We are never to forget that the Protestant 

 Reformation was confined almost whollv 



