1.  So far from being impatient at the length of your letter, I assure you I thought it even short, from the pleasure it gave me when reading it.  For is there anything more pleasing than the idea of peace?  Is anything more suitable to the sacred office, or more acceptable to the Lord, than to take measures for effecting it?  May you have the reward of the peace-maker, since so blessed an office has been the object of your good desires and earnest efforts.  At the same time, believe me, my revered friend, I will yield to none in my earnest wish and prayer to see the day when those who are one in sentiment shall all fill the same assembly.  Indeed it would be monstrous to feel pleasure in the schisms and divisions of the Churches, and not to consider that the greatest of goods consists in the knitting together of the members of Christ’s body.  But, alas! my inability is as real as my desire.  No one knows better than yourself, that time alone is the remedy of ills that time has matured.  Besides, a strong and vigorous treatment is necessary to get at the root of the complaint.  You will understand this hint, though there is no reason why I should not speak out.