wanders, like Ahasuerus, through the ecclesiastical sanctuary of all centuries. It is in opposition to the highest manifestations of the Spirit of God, that the most dangerous and hateful forms of human and diabolical perversion arise. But, in the first place, church history shows that this opposition, and that all errors and divisions, even though they may have a long and almost universal prevalence, must, in the end, serve only to awaken the church to her real work, to call forth her deepest energies,