October 11

I know My sheep, and am known of Mine.

"FROM all false Doctrine, Heresy and Schism" canst thou pray to be delivered? Of Doctrine who shall decide? Perhaps it matters little. But Heresy? At the word I see a long keen line of Light—the Very Truth borne down the highway of the ages by their hands—those whom the Church has called Heretics and made into Schismatics.

I believe in a true apostolic succession through these, without whom God has never left His world, and does not leave it now.

Were not the Apostles, was not indeed our Master Himself, on the side where the Orthodox do not stand, and with Him ten thousand of His Saints, to whom the truth has been shown first, which the Church has perhaps seen afterwards, or never seen?

From all barren Orthodoxy, Good Lord, deliver us.

Thoughts of a Tertiary

I. F. ISURE