So, instead of taking enlightened, spiritual views of ordinances, the Tractarians sought to improve the quality, by multiplying the quantity, of forms; and others are following them into the Roman Catholic church in the same way.
"There always seemed to me," she said, "to be a grain of truth in every great error.

Is it not so?
Even among the Brahmins of the East, and among savages, each superstition, and every lie, retains the fossils of some dead truth.

When a new error breaks out among us, I feel that the human mind is tossing itself, and reaching after something beyond its experience.

It seems to me," she continued, "that, at such times, it is good for ministers and Christians to reexamine their mode of stating the truths of the Bible, to see how far they can properly go to meet the new development, and, by preaching the truth better, intercept it.

The cold, barren view, which many take of ordinances, makes some people hanker after forms and ceremonies; whereas, if we would present baptism and the Lord's Supper as divine acts toward us, we might meet the instinctive wants of many, and hold them to the side of truth.
"But I told Mr.Dow that I was no formalist, nor did I believe in compromising the truth to win errorists.