imax of
God's dealings, the last day. The Holy Ghost, with all His personal
love, will be grieved if we thwart His rich purpose for the whole body
by anything which is contrary to brotherhood in the thoughts of our
hearts, or the words of our lips, or our outward conduct.

(2) They are to remember the divine pattern of life. God has shown His
own heart to us in the free forgiveness which He has given us in
Christ. Being in constant receipt of that forgiveness, we must not
prove ourselves hard and unforgiving towards one another.

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Wherefore, putting away falsehood, speak ye truth each one with his
neighbour: for we are members one of another. Be ye angry, and sin
not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: neither give place to the
devil. Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour,
working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have whereof
to give to him that hath need. Let no corrupt speech proceed out of
your mouth, but such as is good for edifying as the need may be, that
it may give grace to them that hear. And grieve not the Holy Spirit of
God, in whom ye were sealed unto the day of redemption. Let all
bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and railing, be put away
from you, with all malice: and be ye kind one to another,
tenderhearted, forgiving each other, even as God also in Christ forgave
you.

Here, then, St. Paul sketches catholicity in practice. The very idea
of the Church is that of a fellowship of naturally unlike individuals,
harmonized into unity by the new 'truth and grace' of God, which has
been made theirs in their regenerate life. It is this endowment of the
regenerate life that is to enable them to transcend, and overstep, and
defeat natural incompatibilities of temper, and to be one body in
Christ. The practical meaning of catholicity is brotherhood. It is
love, as St. Augustine says, grown as wide as the world[6].

Why has the world lost this sense of the {189} moral meaning of
catholic churchmanship? Why has 'ecclesiastical' come to mean
something quite different to 'brotherly'? Or it is a more profitable
question to ask, How shall we make it mean the same thing again? There
are many who would give up the very effort after recovering the church
principle, the obligation of the 'one body.' But this, as has been
said, is to abandon the ultimate catholic principle of Christianity.
For the very purpose of the one church for all t