I need hardly tell the
sons of peace how great is the blessing of peace. But now this
blessing, great, marvellous, and worthy as it is of being most
strenuously sought by all that love the Lord, is in peril of being
reduced to the bare name, because iniquity abounds, and the love of
most men has waxed cold. cf.
Matt. xxiv.
12. I think then
that the one great end of all who are really and truly serving the Lord
ought to be to bring back to union the Churches now “at sundry
times and in divers manners” cf.
Heb. i. 1. divided from
one another. In attempting myself to effect this, I cannot fairly
be blamed as a busybody, for nothing is so characteristically Christian
as the being a peacemaker, and for this reason our Lord has promised us
peacemakers a very high reward.