ayers
and thanksgiving and instruction of psalms, prophecy and preaching
contribute. Thus in the Eucharist the offering of the church is made one
with the offering of the Great High Priest.[12]

All this represents an ideal. It suggests in a modern form the perpetual
paradox of the Christian life: we are what we are to be. The church is
the divine society in which all other religious associations are
eventually to find their home. The prayer, "Thy kingdom come," embraces
all spiritual forces which make for righteousness. They were
acknowledged in Christ's words, "He that is not against you is for you"
(Luke ix. 50). But the divisions of Christendom testify to the harm done
by undue insistence on the claims of the individual to gain scope to
extend the kingdom in his own way. As in a choir all the resources of an
individual voice are used to strengthen the general effect, so must the
individual lose his life that he may find it, witnessing by his share in
the common service of the church to the ultimate unity of knowledge and
harmony of truth.

For the various conceptions of the church as an organized body see
CHURCH HISTORY, sec. 3, and the articles on the various churches.
(A. E. B.)

FOOTNOTES:

[1] Lactantius, _Inst. Div._ iv. 28 "Vinculo pietatis obstricti, Deo
religati sumus unde ipsa religio nomen accepit." The etymology may
be wrong, but this is the popular sense of the word.

[2] Darwell Stone, _The Christian Church_, p. 18.

[3] _Ecce Homo_, ed. 5, p. 87. Cf. the interesting comparison between
Socrates and Christ.

[4] Op. cit. p. 262.

[5] Hort, _The Christian Ecclesia_, p. 148.

[6] For a full defence of the authenticity of Matt. xxviii. 19 see
Riggenbach, _Der trinitarische Taufbefehl_ (Guetersloh, 1903).

[7] _The Conception of Priesthood_, p. 13.

[8] _The Conception of Priesthood_, p. 29.

[9] Lindsay, _The Church and the Ministry in the Early Centuries_, p.
17.

[10] _The Ascension_, p. 254.

[11] Polycarp, _Phil._ 4; cf. Tertullian, _Ad Uxor_, i. 7.

[12] This teaching is not confined to Episcopalian writers. It has
been finely expressed from the Presbyterian standpoint by Dr
Milligan, op. cit. p. 265 ff.; cf. Lindsay, p. 37.

CHURCH ARMY, an English religious organization, founded in 1882 by the
Rev. Wilson Carlile (afterwards prebendary of St Paul's), who banded
together in an orderly army of "soldiers" and "offi