DOLLINGER ON SECTARIANISM.
Dr. Dollinger, in a recent address, speaks thus strongly of our unholy divisions. He says; “But it is the Christian world which claims our attention—which, it cannot be denied, presents to our view a repulsive and frightful picture of widely differing, and, for the most part, inimical sects and churches, engaged in perpetual quarrelling and mutual criminations. If we were not accustomed to this from our youth, we would realize much more sensibly the deformity, the contradiction between idea and reality, which we here find. In all other callings of life, as in science, in art, the power of attraction, of the union of spirits, is felt, and the discords of contention sooner or later resolve into harmony. Only in religion do we find it otherwise. Exactly that which, according to its innermost being, should be its strongest tie, for it should be sustained by and filled with love, has led to many divisions. What should make peace among men has kindled strife and bloody war; what should give certainty and confidence to man has created doubt and implanted distrust.”—Standard.