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After speaking of St. Paul’s rift with Barnabas and controversy with St. Peter, the Rt. Reverend M. Russell laments fratricide among Protestants while considering harmony between the Scottish and English Episcopal churches. I believe this painfully describes the extant troubles behind a northern catholicism,

“Such things are written for our learning [Paul v. Barnabas], who have the records of so many centuries to guide us; not a few of which are stained with blood, and darkened by the fierce passions of ambition, intolerance, and revenge. There is not a member of any christian body, who, with the annals of his communion spread out before him, will not find occasion to lament that the intemperance of a blind zeal has too frequently obtruded itself, where the interests of faith and piety should alone have warmed the heart and strengthened the arm. It is exceedingly painful to reflect, that as soon as the followers of Christ had ceased to suffer from the hands of pagan rulers, they themselves assumed the weapons of a warfare not less to be deplored. Nor has this great evil quite disappeared in our own day; for though the gentler manners and the improved legislation of modern times preclude any direct attack on the persons or the life, the son many still be seen at variance with his father, the daughter with her mother, and the daughter-in-law with her mother-in-law; and hence, in too many instances, the Scripture continues to be fulfilled which saith “a man’s foes are they his own house.” …Must Christianity appear for ever a large battlefield, echoing the voice of fear, threatening, and lamentation; still grieving the world with a succession of melancholy proofs of how trifling are the grounds on which those who call themselves brethren have most frequently disagreed?” (p. 5-6, The Position of the Scottish Episcopal Church (1845))

Comment by Charles — March 10, 2012 @ 11:24 pm

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