confusion and weakness. To act
in the Name of the King men must be united. If we, who call ourselves
by the Name of Christ, desire to spread His Kingdom with the
irresistible force which belongs to it, we must show to the world
that we are all one in interests--in the common hope of Heaven; all
one in faith--in the common belief in the love of God, as it is
expressed in the work of redemption, through the Father, the Son, and
the Holy Ghost; all one in Baptism into the great Name of the
ever-Blessed Trinity; and, above all other bonds of union, all one in
loyal devotion to the one Lord and King, our Saviour Jesus Christ.

FOOTNOTES:

[18] Let me beg every reader of these lines to pause here, and shoot
up an arrow of prayer that God may lead men to think of the
blessedness of being united, as sons of one Father, brethren of one
family, subjects of one Kingdom. And I would ask those readers who may
be, at present, living in outward separation from the Ancient Branch
of Christ's Church in this land, to consider with themselves what
cause there is in their own case to justify, before God, such a
separation from their Brethren in Christ.

[19] Consider also S. Paul's earnest words, "Unto the Church of God
which is at Corinth, with all that in every place call upon the name
of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours." "Now I beseech you,
brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the
same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be
perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, that there are
contentions among you" (1 Cor. i. 2, 10, 11).

[20] A caution is perhaps needed here to prevent the reader from
supposing that any re-union is advocated which would involve union
with error. On the one hand, we must "stand fast in the liberty
wherewith Christ hath made us free" (Gal. v. 1). We must firmly refuse
to accept any other foundation than that of the Creeds, settled by an
undivided Christendom. And on the other hand, we must set ourselves
with equal firmness against allowing any "Shibboleth" (Judges xii. 6),
made out of exaggerated views of particular doctrines, to cut off
those who should be brethren, not only in name but in life.

[21] Truths are many-sided. Men may agree in their belief in truths,
and yet hold different opinions concerning those truths. Just as men,
who live on different sides o