ranged as a basis for Christian unity and ecclesiastical union, we ask, Who made this system? Where did it come from? Churchmen did not invent it nor make it. Many of them do not grasp it. Some of them in spirit are very alien from it. They inherit it from their fathers, and these again from theirs, back to the beginning. If it be not man-made, may not this Comprehensive Church have come, for gathering back into one the scattered flock of Christ, from the Hand and Will of God? In other words, looking at this system among the other systems around it, and as compared with those of (what the preface of our PrayerBook calls) "the different religious denominations of Christians in these States," is not its comprehensiveness, which is its distinguishing characteristic, a very strong evidence of its Divine Original?
But let the reader draw his own conclusions. Any judgment is worth nothing to him, except as it is sincerely, patiently, disinterestedly, and positively his