Romans, Copts, Lutherans, and Irvingites are all quarrelling, they are invisibly united in the Church of Christ. Our Lord's promise that they should be One cannot be broken; so it follows as a necessary consequence that we are One invisibly, although it does not look very like it to the naked eye.

Augustine, the man of God, repaired to Arles, and pursuant to the orders received from the holy Father Gregory, was ordained Archbishop of the English nation, by Etherius, archbishop of that city. Then, returning into Britain, he sent Laurentius, the priest, and Peter, the monk, to Rome, to acquaint to acquaint Pope

Gregory, that the nation of the English had received the faith of Christ, and that he himself was made their bishop. At the same time, he desired his solution of some doubts that occurred to him.21

21 Here we have an admirable proof of the soundness of the position of those who father themselves on the ancient British Church; for Augustine, at the Pope's command, went to France to be consecrated Archbishop, instead of seeking consecration from the hands of the Bishops of Britain. This showed that he was a Roman Catholic and not a British Catholic. Then, when he returned to Britain, he sent two messengers to the Pope, his master, to report his

proceedings, and to ask the Pope's advice on certain matters. Now it is impossible, for a moment, to conceive of an English clergyman doing anything of this kind.

On the other hand, we may imagine the British clergy (since we are told nothing about their proceedings just at this time), living just the same lives as our clergy of to-day, marrying and giving in marriage, distancing all competitors in the sizes of their families, lunching, dining, and district visiting.

At any rate, we know

nothing to the contrary.

Moreover, the same Pope Gregory, hearing from Bishop Augustine, that he had a great

harvest, and but few labourers, sent to him, together with his aforesaid messengers, several fellow-labourers and ministers of the word, of whom the first were Mellitus, Justus, Paulinus, and Rufinianus, and by them all things in general that were necessary for the worship and service of the church, viz., sacred vessels and vestments for the altars, also ornaments for the churches, and vestments for the priests and clerks, as likewise relics of the holy apostles and martyrs.22

22 As if one detachment of Romanists were not enough, this meddlesome Pope must needs be sending more. Those members of the Church of England, who claim Augustine,

might have a shadow of a standpoint, as against us, who claim Lucius, if Augustine and his party had left Rome, come to England, founded a Church, and afterwards cut themselves off from Rome. But this writing to the Pope for advice and further help, and these streams upon streams of fresh Popish priests arriving from Italy, put Augustine's Church on exactly the same footing as Cardinal Manning's, and it is impossible to combat dissent on such grounds as these. The vestments, and altars, and ornaments, again, are all very well, but the relics of the holy apostles and martyrs are absolutely inadmissible.

Then there is a letter from Pope Gregory to Augustine, which will