...of ecclesiastical affairs at the present appalling " crisis of church power," when " the divisions that exist among us on questions belonging to the...dismay, and the statesman with hopeless perplexity." He stands an anxious spectator of the approaching conflict of the parties, who have already set their...

...social order, it is found to have become the subject of very serious, and, as it seems, irreconcilable misunderstandings, such as at once paralyse its spiritual...perplexity. The usual prelude of open hostility has actuallybeen gone through with ; namely, an exact numbering and comparing of forces among the combatants....

...portentous shade over all our institutions, civil as well as ecclesiastical. The divisions — now so much exasperated, that exist among us on questions...hostility has actually been gone through with ; namely, a numbering and comparing of forces among the combatants. The muster-rolls of party strength have been...

...promotion of religion. The interests at stake, and the pressure of the times, at once unite their weight. " The divisions, now much exasperated, that exist among...dismay, and the statesman with hopeless perplexity." Open hostilities have actually commenced ; there has been an exact numbering and comparing of forces...

...reverently praised and inwardly digested. The divisions " now so much exasperated that exist amongst us, on questions belonging to the exterior forms and...dismay, and the statesman with hopeless perplexity." So says our author, and so in turn say all the disputants. But he alone, as far as our reading extends,...

...reverently praised and inwardly digested. The divisions " now so much exasperated that exist amongst us, on questions belonging to the exterior forms and...dismay, and the statesman with hopeless perplexity." So says our author, and so in turn say all the disputants. But he alone, as far as our reading extends,...

...reverently praised and inwardly digested. The divisions " now so much exasperated that exist amongst us, on questions belonging to the exterior forms and...dismay, and the statesman with hopeless perplexity." So says our author, and so in turn say all the disputants. But he alone, as far as our reading extends,...

...reverently praised and inwardly digested. The divisions "now so much exasperated that exist amongst us, on questions belonging to the exterior forms and...dismay, and the statesman with hopeless perplexity." So says our author, and so in turn say all the disputants. But he alone, as far as our reading extends,...

...reverently praised and inwardly digested. The divisions " now so much exasperated that exist amongst us, on questions belonging to the exterior forms and...profession of religion, are of a kind that affect the ChristrSn with inexpressible grief, the patriot with shame and dismay, and the statesman with hopeless...

...reverently praised and inwardly digested. The divisions " now so much exasperated that exist amongst us, on questions belonging to the exterior forms and...inexpressible grief, the patriot with shame and dismay, and tho statesman with hopeless perplexity." So says our author, and so in turn say all the disputants....