Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-03-12
CHRISTIAN DISuNiON.

THE subject Of sectarianism, or the
division OF Chrlstendom into multi.
tude Of oontcnding sccts Ia being dis.
cussed In many quarters. The evil Of
II Is being better appreciated than has
been common In the past. Efforts TO
establish Christian unity are numer.
Gus, but any practical success cannot
yet DO chronicled. In the Homiictic
Review for March, Bishop A. tleve'
land Coke, OF the Episcopal Church,
has an article on this question from
which we make the annexed extracts;
"what is Christianity doing, with It,
Immense resources and gigantic energies.
to stay this plague OF national doclinog
Aiasl Christianity itself Is paralyzed by
neciarian divisions and by the spirit that
cherishos Thorn, ropugnant as II is to the
procepts OF it, Divine Author. Christ
never authorized divided household,
nor the dissolution Of what lac gave rs
'htly Joined together aud compacted by
that which every Joint supplieih.'
Whore sany promise OF triumph oyor
tho world sayo only to the Church In it,
unity and integrity We. these divisions
are kept up not only where cardinal
principles arc involved; they arc sup.
ported by wastoful expenditure, and
even by plausible argument among those
who proclaim that they differ only In
'non-e-sontials- II 40, why differ ut all,
ut tho safrihco OF that essential unity
which Ia a primary procepi OF the Gospei
Can a thoughtful Christian delight In a
popular Christianity (which shape has
nons, dlatlngulshabls In member, Joint or
limb Compared with the Church In lie
martyr ages, W. arc all as dead moni our
hAbiistlon IL a valley Of dry bones.
Come iroiu tho four winds, o Spirit, aud
breath upon those slaln.'
~ hold that the first thing Is the spirit
to doplore and hate seclarlan divisions;
aud further, / hold that whom this spirit
turns into general prayer and supplica.
ton, the Holy Spirit Il able to do tho
rest, and to realize tho Modiitor's will,
that they all may DO one Essentially
one, be II observed. Not sontimontally
so, but practically, vitality. essentially
afor tho highest pattern In tho universe
the essential unity of the holy and un.
divided Trinity. Mere compromises fall
short OF tho mark, aud effect
nothing but failure and consequent
dlscouragtmont. OF this ono may tlnd
an example and warning In the we'll
meant effort Of Frederick William III tC
establish u united Professionalism IL
Prussia. IL was entirely based ON com
promise, and has satisfied nobody. III,
unity Of mere compromise aims to selll'
everything by alliance, and to draw VI
schemes for ratification by protocol ant
treaty. They must always prove abor
tive. Not such is the way Of Cod Con
WINGED OF this, profoundly convince,
that there must be root. principles to or
ganlc unity, out OF which 1t grows and Il
, mo, strained, tho bishops Of our Angli
, can communion have set forth, Tor tn,
consideration OF their fellow Christians
not their own views Of tho root-pfincl
Piles, but the views Of tho ancient Churcl
Catholic OF Christ Such wore the prin
ciples cherished by all whom the Churcl
was indeed ut unity with itself aut
which were mover iorieltod all the Roma
: pOntiff prescribed another aud nov,
! criterion, by force Of which the Latin
$ soon severed themselves from the gran
: root and trunk OF Christcndom, the ma
n tornal churches OF the East the ohurchu
g amid which the las, Of tho Apostles lin
.tta l.. 4 III 4 IL. 81