It becomes as then to understand our true position, and to realize the value of that divine organization, which Christ him self instituted and promised to preserve. Like St. Paul, we may boast that we are citizens of no mean city, we are off-shoots of the true Vine. The Holy Church of England and Ireland flourishing in the mother land ere the Monk Augustine set foot on English soil, or ever the Roman schism vexed the Catholic Church, is the Church into which we were by God's mercy elected at our baptism and however sorely that Church may have been tried, however dark the stain which our mother may have contracted by an unhappy alliance, nevertheless by repenting of her sins God did bring her back again as he did his people some time from the deep of the sea, set her feet upon the Rock and ordered her going.

That Church is what? A living temple we are lively stones builded together. Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God des troy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are. Therefore let no man glory in men ye are Christ's and Christ is God's.

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