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The Eoinan Catholics have held forth the counsels of Christian perfection for the attainment of a chosen few who are called to be saints, and so far have maintained a higher ethical standard than Protestantism; but the Roman church as a body has been content with a ceremonial sanctity. The churches 874 THE ALIENATION OF CHURCH AND PEOPLE. have not made Christlikeness their shining mark. The mind of Christ has not been their mind; His ways their ways. Therefore the Church has not in any great me...asure presented itself to the people as holy in Christlike words and deeds. She has sought more her owii advancement in numbers, in wealth and in influence, than tht 1 salvation of poor, weak and outcast men and women. Her ministers and her adherents have not won men and women from sin to holiness by their example. Church membership, subscription to creeds, conformity to doctrines, liturgies and ceremonies, the observ- ance of religious customs and sacred days, have been made of more importance than repentance, good deeds, and Christlike lives.
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