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party Like them it claims for every soul i'm
mediate access to God through Christ; like
them 1t accepts reason and conscience as more
sacred than any outward authority; like them.
u wholly relies on the one offering for sin once
offered. But. with the Cambridge Platonists
II would turn men away from the fierceness OF
oplnlons; 1t desires to put on reason as the
sacerdotal brerstplate of its priestly hablli-
ments; it holds fast to the truth that the spirit
OF man IS the candle OF the Lord; it does not
believe either that all wisdom died with the
Fathers, or that the Reformers locked the
door OF religious truth and flung away the key
forever And surely such party may claim
for itself the tolerance which it most cheerful
~ comedies to others when in ancient days, il
may claim the great names Of Orgen and st.
Gregory of Nyssa and St. Gregory of Nazian-
cen and the school of Antioch; and in modern
days the names of Bacon and Hales, and Jer-
emy Taylor and Tillotson, and Coleridgs and
Arnold, and Whatey and Thirlwall Would
the Church have been better without such
names? Would it have been better without
the High Church names of Hooker and Ken,
and Keble and Pusey? Would 1t have been
better without the Low Church names of Rid
ley and Hooper and Cecil and Newton and Sim
con and Wilberforce and Venn? Does not the
very existence of such differing views among
holy men show that if diversity without union
is discord,' on the other hand unity without
diversity is DEATH? | hold, then, that these
schools have been of inestimable service to
the Church. The Low Church party revived
the earnestness of spiritual religion; the High
Church party rescued forgotten truths, stimu-
lated slumbering energy, renewed order the
beauty, the reverence of worship Broad
Churchmen, ever ready to work with b tn, de-
voted themselves with no little success to the
study of exegess, and did no little to cc-ord-
nate the data of revealed truth with the dis
coveries of advancing knowledge. This has
been their influence upon the Church; and
what has been their influence upon each 9TH
er? 1t has been to widen, to ostimulate, to har-
monize; to prevent those truths from being OBJ
liberated which each severally maintains to
prevent the tyranny of ignorant narrowiess,
sacerdotal arrogance and latitudinarisn indiff-
efence; to save each other from the common
blight OF Pharisaism-the Pharisaism of love-
laxity or intellectual disdain. In conclusion,
always wrong. Uniformity is impossible; unity
is sacred duty. Sympathy tolerance candor
are incumbent on all alike; jealousies and re-
vikings are always and in all men a grievous
sin. The Jewish schools were rent asunder be-
tween the followers of Shammai and Hilel.
AT length, says the Talmud, the Bath Kol-
the Voice from Heaven--decided their rival
ries. Both, it said-and oh! how often
might the Bath Kol so decide our
controversies also-'both are right; but the
Nalacha'-that is the right rule-'is with Hill
lel?' Why is this?' asked the Rabbis. And
the answer is, Because the disciples of Hillel
were gentle, courteous and forbearing; while
those Of Shammai were fanatical and fierce
What is this but the decision OF St. Paul at
the moment of his loftiest inspirati, n? And
now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three;
but the greatest OF these is charity"