Christian Fellowship: The United Life and Work of the Churches
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I THE UNITY OF CHRISTENDOM
THE UNITY OF CHRISTENDOM
DUTY OR PROBLEM
HO dares write of Christian unity, on our belief in unam sanctam catholicam et apostolicam ecclesiam, on its reality, on its pangs and needs, without plunging himself and all those who will read such a bold essay into the prayer recorded in the seventeenth chapter of St. John? Let us humbly and obediently penetrate our souls with its words and spirit: “That they may all be one; even as Thou, Father, art in Me, and I in Thee, that they also may be in Us: that the world may believe that Thou didst send Me.”? This prayer of our Saviour, so often repeated by us, but never pondered seriously enough, contains three clauses: First, the disciples of Christ shall be one; secondly, where they are to be united—in the Father and Son; thirdly, why they are to be united—that the world may believe that God has sent Christ.
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