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"Whatever theories and speculations may be indulged in and cherished by those opposed to the Roman Catholic Church, their influence, however important they may seem, is not sufficiently vital to prevent me from being united to it.

It satisfies and meets my deepest wants; and on this ground, setting aside any other for the moment, I feel like affirming, in the spirit of the man whom Christ made to see.* I know not whether this Church be or be not what certain men call it, but this I know: it has the life my heart is thirsting for, and of which my spirit is in great need.
[* John 9:24: We know this man is a sinner.

He said therefore to them: If he be a sinner, I know not; one thing I know, that whereas I was blind, now I see.] "A case in point: The sermon of Dr.Seabury on the lamented death of Arthur Carey is as far from satisfying my heartfelt longings as Platonism would be to the Christian.

Read the doctrine of the Catholic Church on the Communion of Saints in the Catechism of the Council of Trent attentively and devoutly, and you will see and feel the wide difference in doctrine and life between it and that held even by the high-church Anglican.

It may be said in excuse for Dr.
Seabury, that he has to be prudent and cautious on account of the state of mind of those whom he has to speak to.