THE LATE SECESSION. 183 not look as if there were no soundness but in apathy, no security but in in- ertness ? One of the great evils of the times is rash judgment, indiscriminate attack, and a zeal for censure without exramin- ation ; a not separating men who are materially dissimilar, but lumping them into one common reprobated mass, or, at best, speaking as if the difference were so little, that it was not worth the pains to separate them. Perhaps there are no church com- munities in the world, that dO not hold some doctrines in common. We are identified in some important points with the Church of Rome ; but that does not blind us to its errors, nor does it prevent our keeping clear of them. There are both rational and orthodox communities in our own country ; but Our holding some opinions in common with them, neither makes us adopt those opinions which we disapprove, nor con- demn those who profess them, as if they
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