In this wiser and purer spirit, let us meditate to gether upon the theme thus presented for our con sideration: the supernatural quality on the church or god. To such consideration we are summoned by far higher incentives than any that may be derived from' the peculiar solemnities of this occa sion or from the contemplation of those specific and difficult duties with which'i have just been officially intrusted. The skeptical assaults upon the career and doctrine, and even the validity and {authority of the church; the papal and 'prelatic tendency toward the humanization of the church at the sacrificeof her spiritual supremacy; the yearnings and efforts toward closer fellowship among those who are conscious of belonging to her holy and catholic communion, alike demand that we should possess the clearest, soundest views of that central and divine quality in the church, whose presence manifested puts both unbelief and priestly assumption to silence, gives rest to controversy.

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