and to make the most of all remaining sympathies and agreements, except where some special reason is shewn to the contrary. If such consideration be due (as all will allow) to those yet in communion with us (alas, how many!) who deny and disavow the Catholic meaning of our formularies it is due no less to those, whose Creed is substantially the same with our own, though we may not worship together.

This is all self-evident, when men once understand the resemblance of our case to that of a divided family,-divided for a time by some error of their superiors:-relationship continuing, while intercourse is interrupted. And perhaps it applies not the less forcibly, when we recollect the special circumstances of the misunderstanding which originally parted us. Natural piety, too, would recommend the most guarded and respectful thoughts and words, seeing that the matters in controversy between us touch continually on the verge of most sacred and unquestionable truths, on which if a man discourse ignorantly, he can hardly fail to symbolize with heretics, and to disparage Saints and Fathers.

With these feelings, we need not, I trust, fear, lest in clinging dutifully to our own Church of England we lose our hold on the First and only True Church. While we forego some things, in themselves desirable, for charity's and obedience' sake, there remains yet a great body-enough,

if rightly improved, to fill out a whole life-of Catholic opinions, usages, and sympathies, wherein we may indulge without a shadow of offence. Here lies our true Via Pacis, and centre of unity: not to be found by eagerly pressing on to outward communion, but rather by praying for them and with them at a distance:-by acquiescing, so long as it shall please God, in the sentence (so to call it) of partial excommunication, which seems now for many centuries to have hung over each separate portion of our sinful and decayed Christendom. This, in God's counsels, may be the kind of unity intended for us, as best suiting our condition, and furthering our probation: an unity of faith, not of sight: an unity which, far from admitting any boastful contemplation of our privileges, cannot be imagined apart from the constant breathings of a lowly and penitent spirit.

May one be permitted (though most unworthy) to offer one concluding suggestion, which will surely be taken in good part by all kind readers of whatever section of the Church? It is this: That at one time or another in our daily devotions, we should offer up our Lord's Prayer, as a prayer, in special, for Church union; if so be He may graciously accept it, remembering His own Eucharistical petition," THAT THEY MAY BE ONE, AS WE ARE."

Our Father, which art in Heaven, One God the Father Almighty, One Lord Jesus Christ, One

Holy Ghost proceeding from the Father and the Son; have mercy upon us Thy children, and make us all one in Thee.

Hallowed be Thy Name: Thou Who art One Lord, and Thy Name One; have mercy upon us all, who are called by Thy Name, and make us more and more one in Thee.

Thy kingdom come: O King of Righteousness and Peace, gather us more and more into Thy kingdom, and make us both visibly and invisibly one in Thee.

Thy will be done in earth, as it is in Heaven: Thou Who hast declared unto us the mystery of Thy will, to gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in Heaven and which are on earth: conform us, O Lord, to that holy will of Thine, and make us all one in Thee.

Give us this day our daily Bread: Thou in Whom we being many are one Bread and one Body: grant that we being all partakers of that one Bread, may day by day be more and more one in Thee.

And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive them that trespass against us: Thou, Who didst say, Father, forgive them, for those who were rending Thy Blessed Body: forgive us the many things we have done to mar the unity of Thy mystical Body, and make us, forgiving and loving one another, to be more and more one in Thee.

And lead us not into temptation: As Thou didst enable Thine Apostles to continue with Thee in Thy temptations: so enable us by Thy grace to abide with Thee in Thy true Church under all trials, visible and invisible, nor ever to cease from being one in Thee.

But deliver us from evil: From the enemy and. false accuser: from envy and grudging: from an unquiet and discontented spirit: from heresy and schism: from strife and debate: from a scornful temper, and reliance on our own understanding: from offence given or taken; and from whatever might disturb Thy Church, and cause it to be less one in Thee:

Good Lord, deliver and preserve Thy servants for ever.