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Catholic but local, and what you have 

 not told us church history has abundantly 

 shown ; viz., that the earliest divisions of 

 Christendom came to pass not alone be- 

 cause of the strife of this or that branch 

 of the Church of Christ for supremacy, 

 but also because of that centrifugal force 

 in all national churches which tended to 

 drive them apart into merely national 

 camps." Of this tendency it must be 

 owned that the history of the Eastern 

 Church is an impressive illustration. Its 

 dominant type to-day is not Greek but 

 Russian. Apart from the Russo-Greek 

 Church the churches of the East have 

 little life, little learning, little aggressive 

 power. And no one who knows the East, 

 and Russia also, can be insensible to the 

 fact that in that mighty empire the fea- 

 tures of a narrow and intolerant national- 

 ism have overlaid those others which in 

 the earlier history of the Eastern Church 

 made it the witness of a primitive faith 

 and of the apostolic temper. Yet these 

 are the two great types of national Chris- 

 tianity to-day : the Latin, arrogant, intol- 

 erant, unscholarly; the Greek, narrow, 

 slumbrous, and unaspiring. " Surely, 1 ' it 



