g liberal or comprehensive views of Christian doctrine and
fellowship."--_Webster._

Side by side with these various shades of High and Low Church, another
party of a different character has always existed in the Church of
England. It is called by different names: Moderate, Catholic, or _Broad
Church_, by its friends: Latitudinarian or Indifferent, by its enemies.
Its distinctive character is the desire of comprehension. Its watchwords
are _charity_ and _toleration_.--_Conybeare._

_Broadgauge._ This word is connected, in its origin, with railroads. Its
radical idea is that of distance. It is credited by Webster to Simmonds in
these words, "A wide distance (usually six or seven feet) between the
rails on a railway, in contradistinction from the narrow gauge of four
feet eight inches and a half." The watch-word, "charity," is a term that
has been much abused. "Charity is a grace of heavenly mien." It is the
"end of the commandment." "The law was not made for a righteous man, but
for the lawless, and the disobedient, etc." It is love, in the New
Testament sense of the term, as modified by all the essential elements of
the Christian religion, so it is "the fulfilling of the law." It is not
passion, _but affection_. To my sensuous life all my passions belong. The
brute has also a sensuous life. But man has, in addition to this, an
intellectual life. Passion always passes away with its object, but
affection remains to soften the heart years after its object is gone.

My intellectual nature is the field of all legitimate gospel operations
with reference to the production of a Christian life and character. As a
divine affection, charity or love springs out of union with God, or being
made a "partaker of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that
is in the world through lusts." Such being the height of its bed-rock, it
is said, "Every one that loveth is born of God and knoweth God." And it is
also said, "He that saith I know him and keepeth not his commandments is a
liar." This strong language correlates with the fact that charity
expresses the idea of love as an attribute of divine life, known as the
life of God. It is an attribute belonging to those who have made the high
attainment of a spiritual or mental condition which places them beyond the
need of penal laws to restrain them from crime. Its _measure_ is the _love
of God_. Its full import may be expressed in these words, _loving as God
loves_.

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