under God's Providence, in our own land, in ancient
times, and which includes ourselves. For Bishop has followed Bishop,
and the Gospel has been preached, and subjects have been brought into
the Kingdom of Christ, in this favoured land of England, from one
generation to another, from the very beginning of our national life
until our own day.

FOOTNOTES:

[22] The word "Catholic" is the Greek for "Universal," and expresses
the truth that the Church of Christ is open to, and embraces, all the
nations of the world; because the Kingdom of Messiah was not to be
restricted to one nation, but was intended to spread over the whole
earth. And, consequently, the word also expresses the essential unity
of the Church, because there can be but one Church which is purposed
to include the whole race of man.

[23] See the marginal note in a reference Bible.

[24] The word "Elders" is in the Greek _Presbyteroi_, from which comes
"Presbyter," and from the shortened form "Prester," which was once in
use, comes our present English form "Priest." The use of this word
"Priest" to translate the word _Hiereus_, which is the name in the
Greek of the Jewish Minister, and the mistaken idea that the
sacrifices he offered were propitiatory in the sense that they "could
take away sin" (Heb. x. 4), have caused much misunderstanding of the
word, and prejudice against it, which the knowledge of its meaning
removes.

[25] In the course of the ninth century a very serious dispute raged
between the Eastern and Western Church. The Greeks had often before
protested against the pretensions of the Popes of Rome, and now they
complained that the Latins had introduced the word "Filioque," meaning
"and the Son," into the article of the Creed respecting the procession
of the Holy Ghost. The Nicene Creed, as drawn up in the original
Greek, contains only these words, "proceeding from the Father." The
Latin Church added "and the Son," without the authority of a General
Council. And though the contest seems to have been about words, rather
than any difference of doctrine, at last, after a dispute of many
years, it ended in the schism between the Church of Constantinople and
the Church of Rome--between the East and the West--which has never
been healed.

[26] See Archbishop Trench's Lectures on Medieval Church History.

[27] He must not be confused with the great theologian, Augustine,
Bishop of Hippo in Africa, who was mentioned above (page 137), and who