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[Egbert M. <qua...@un...>]

Ristian ritual and administration,
represents a lamentable mosaic of spirits gathered from all the pagan
corners of secular Europe and mixed up with the Christian wine in the
same barrel. The Church of the East excommunicated thousands of those
who crossed themselves with two fingers instead of using three fingers.
The Church of the West burnt thousands of those who did not recognise
the papal organisation of the Church as the only ark of salvation. Yet
there is rarely to be found in the Church annals an excommunication on
the ground of chauvinism or brutal egoism. No one of the world
conquerors--neither Napoleon nor Kaiser
William--have been excommunicated by the Church. It signifies an
extreme decadence of the Church. And this

decadence penetrates and dominates our own time. Speaking on the
reunion
of the Churches the peoples of the East are anxious to know--not
whether the Church of the West has preserved the unmixed Christian
spirit in its
integrity, but whether this Church still keeps Filioque
as a dogma, and whether she has ikons, and whether she allows
eggs and milk in Lent. And the people of the West
are anxious to know whether the Eastern Church has a screen quite
different from their own screen at the altar, and whether
she has been always tenaciously exclusive in teaching, worship and
organisation. Who of us and of you asks about the integrity of the
Christian spirit?
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