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threaten us. We must maintain the sym- 

 bols of our faith and the historic order of 

 the Church. But we are never to forget 

 that the unity which was destroyed in that 

 Latin Church was one that cannot return. 

 ... I know no stranger book than the 

 Irenicon of Dr. Pusey, in which, after 

 proving with the wealth of learning that 

 modern Rome has substituted Mariolatry 

 for Christian worship, he proposes an alli- 

 ance with it on the basis of Trent, as if 

 the Mariolatry he exposes were not the 

 very development of Trent." Rather than 

 this " we want the unity that consists in 

 an open Bible, a sound intelligence, a better 

 learning, a reasonable faith. Our fathers 

 bought it in the fires of Smithfield and 

 baptized it in the baptism of their blood, 

 and we will keep it forever. The strength 

 of the Church lies in this, that it works 

 with the forces of a Christian civilization." 

 And the whole tendency of those forces 

 is in the direction of the closer alliance of 

 all Christian people, the steady elimination 

 of the sources of mutual misapprehension, 

 the frank recognition of excellencies in 

 those from whom we are separated, and the 

 economy of wasted forces, upon the basis 



