These characters--continuity, authority, common belief and loyalty--which are shown, as he says, in their completeness in a patriot army, are I think no less marked features of a living spiritual society.

Plain examples are the primitive Christian communities, the great religious orders in their flourishing time, the Society of Friends.

They are on the whole more fully evident in the Catholic than in the Protestant type of church.

But I think that we may look upon them, in some form or another, as essential to any institutional framework which shall really help the spiritual life in man.
We find ourselves, then, committed to the picture of a church or spiritual institution which is in essence Liturgic, Ecclesiastical, Dogmatic, and Militant, as best fulfilling the requirements of group psychology.

Four decidedly indigestible morsels for the modern mind.
Yet, group-feeling demands common expression if it is to be lifted from notion to fact.