The defects of all the various denominations.

pressing the opinion, that if there ever is again established one outward form of christianity on this earth, it will be the precise form in which the Episcopal Church at this moment stands before the world. Just so far as she possesses the essential features of the church of Christ she must remain immutable, and no farther.

And I would here submit to the consideration of the reader, whether there be not much wisdom, in the remark of a very good and holy man.

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"If differing denominations of christians are ever brought to strive together for the faith of the gospel, it will be by their first uniting in the government, whatever they may decide it to be, which God has set in his church."

It is not impossible that after all, this will be the point upon which the whole matter will turn-that when christians are agreed upon this, all other repellencies will give way, and the whole mass will mingle into one consolidated body. It is not impossible but this, at last, will prove the great principle of attractive affinity, which will draw together and hold in sweet and delightful union, all the integral parts of the now divided church of the Redeemer.

I have no doubt however, if christians are ever thus brought together, all denominations will have to give up something. A writer who undertakes to account for the existence of different denominations on the ground of utility, remarks:

“There is room for correction and revision in every denomination, and a fund of practical wisdom among the different sects for each sect to avail itself of, in the improvement of its own system. Hitherto prejudice and self-sufficiency have prevented the inter-communion of experience and practical improvements; and it has been a sufficient reason for not adopting a salutary practice, that it was the peculiarity of some other denomination. But when this foolish and criminal selfishness shall sink and disappear, as the tide of holy love rises in the hearts of christians, each denomination will be as ready to avail itself of the discovery of others, as philosophers now are to avail themselves of each other's discoveries in philosophy and mechanism. And when this shall come, and I trust it is near at hand-then the end which God *Bp. Griswold.

Conclusion.

saw from the beginning, may begin to disclose itself. Then we may perceive that all his people, in all their different wanderings, have been employed by Heaven to explore different fields, and to bring in, each their treasures of experi mental knowledge, to assist in building in the most perfect practical manner, the universal temple in which all nations shall worship God; and happy is that denomination which, in the light of that trying day, does not in some respect suffer loss; and thrice happy that community of christians, which shall bring in, as the result of its researches the greatest amount of gold and silver and precious stones, and the least amount of wood and hay and stubble."*

We have introduced these remarks not for the purpose of adopting the theory of this writer in relation to the design of Heaven, in permitting the various denominations of christians to exist, but to fix the attention of the reader upon this one fact, that if there ever be again on this earth one outward form of christianity it will in all probability be some what different from any that now exists. With all our churches there will doubtless be found some hay, wood and stubble—but if we mistake not, there will be found a large amount of gold and silver and precious stones, in the organization to which we have been directing the attention of the reader in this volume, so large an amount indeed, that in point of essentials, it will continue the same organization.

We must now take leave of the reader. If in this walk about Zion, he has seen any thing to cause him to lift up his heart in gratitude to the Great Builder of Zion's towers and palaces and bulwarks-if he has seen any thing to prompt him to look with kindlier feelings upon the members of the Episcopal Communion, let him TELL IT TO THE GENERA

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