The Christian observer Author:Unknown Author Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: " Union, however, supposes agreement. And can it be that clergymen of tin: tame church—sworn at the same altars—militant under the same chief—subscribing the sam... more »e articles of faith—ministering in the same sanctuary—leading the devotions of their people in the same sublime, scriptural, and only-not-inspired Liturgy —can it be, that men, thus united in the functions of their sacred office, should not be all agreed amongst themselves ? If it be so, there must be a fault somewhere. Is it that they have too little of the spirit of our excellent church, or that they are too little attentive to her forms? Is it that they do not faithfully preach her doctrines, or that they do not duly observe her discipline?—Or is it a combination of both these causes—a want of piety in some, a defect of churchmanship in others? I confess, my brethren, that next to that, without which there can be no communion of saints, except as a mere article of our creed—I mean union to Christ as our common Head, and the participation of his Spirit—I know no centre of union more fitted to attract and keep together any body of Christians, whether laymen or ecclesiastics, than the confessions, the prayers, the stated services, at well ai the occasional offices, of our Established Church." pp. 15, 16. RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE. We have not lost sight of the affairs of the Society for promoting Christian Knowledge. We had intended long since to proceed with our exposition of the false doctrine of too many of the Society's tracts ; but we forebore for a time, on account of there being some pending proceedings before the Society relative to the tracts, and also a notice of a motion by Mr. Benson, for the retirement yearly of a portion of the Standing Committee and the fillin...« less