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THE TRUE CHURCH OF
JESUS CHRIST
By P. M. Northcote
It would be useless to speak about the Church of
Jesus Christ to those who do not believe in Him.
To such as these I do not address myself. I will,
however, place before them a few considerations
worthy of their careful attention. They will, I pre
sume, scarcely doubt His existence as an historical
personage, for, apart from the records we have of Him,
surely as weighty and worthy of credence as those
which testify to the life character and doings of any
one else in history, it is, moreover, an unquestionable
fact that He has exercised and still exercises upon
the world an influence absolutely without parallel. It
is quite impossible that such a gigantic superstructure
should be based upon a myth. Let it be granted,
then, that close upon two thousand years ago there
was born in Judea a man of Hebrew race' who lived
a short life, exhibiting characteristics quite unique,
characteristics so imposingly grand and beautiful
that He has extorted the admiration even of those
most hostile to His claims. He spent His life for
others, and for their sakes finally suffered a most
agonizing and shameful death. What brought Him
to death was His unfaltering assertion that He was
'God Incarnate. Moreover, it is to be noted that the
long series of the prophets of His nation had foretold
that God should come upon earth in human guise,
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and these prophecies, types, and figures tally most
minutely with all that is related of this wonderful
being: the time of His arrival upon earth, His birth
of a Virgin, the poverty and obscurity of His early
years, His life of beneficent toil, the manner of His
painful death, His Resurrection and Ascension into
heaven—all are foreshown with an astonishing ex
actness. Furthermore, He wrought mighty miracles,
and pointed to them as evidences of the truth of
what He taught about Himself and His mission upon
earth. There are those who in the name of science
airily assert that miracles are impossible. Now, no
fact is impossible, and miracles are facts as well
attested as any other facts of history. It is the
province of the inductive sciences to interpret facts:
nothing is more silly and unscientific than to brush
aside facts which stand in the way of a cherished
preconception. In addition to His miracles we have
His own foreknowledge of future events, whether
concerning Himself or whether concerning the society
instituted by Him, and the course of the world’s
history until the end of time. His predictions of
what would happen to Himself were all fulfilled as
recorded in the Gospel narration. His predictions
of events affecting posterity have been verified one by
one: the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple,
the spread of His religion, the persecutions His
followers should suffer, all these things have come to
pass, and we are thereby justified in believing that all
His other prophecies will be realized in process of
time.
There are these and many other such proofs which
fully bear out the reasonableness of our faith that the
Son of Mary is also the Son of God.
If, then, Christ be the Son of God, it follows that
all He said must be incontestably true, and that all
His commands must be willingly obeyed. To secure
the salvation which He has wrought out for us, He
imposes the obligation that we should believe all that
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He taught and observe all that He commanded
(Mark xvi. 16, Matt, xxviii. 20). This involves two
things, right faith and right conduct, than which two
things nothing could be more important, for upon
them depends our eternal salvation. Once we realize
this we infer that He could not have made issues of
such tremendous import to ourselves depend upon
right faith and right conduct unless He had also
given to us a means whereby we may know with an
infallible certainty what we are to believe and what
we are to do. We are not disappointed in this
inference, for we find it recorded that He has founded
a society to which He promises Divine assistance that
it may never lose that precious treasure of heaven
sent knowledge, nor ever err in its interpretation of
the teaching He imparted to it.
Which, then, is this society founded by Jesus Christ ?
Certainly not all the Christian bodies taken collec
tively, for nothing is more evident than their complete
discord as to what Christ really taught. We must
search, therefore, amongst them and find out one
society which corresponds with the society which He
speaks of as His Kingdom and His Church. In fine,
there is laid upon us the obligation under most awful
responsibility of searching for and entering into the
True Church of Jesus Christ.
I will, therefore, endeavour as briefly and plainly as
possible to point out certain indications whereby we
may know which of all the Christian denominations
is the Church founded by the Saviour of mankind.
In so doing I shall appeal to no authority except
the words of our Lord Himself and of His duly
accredited spokesmen, the Apostles.
(A) The True Church of Jesus Christ must be
a proselytizing Church.
Matt. xxiv. 14: “ And this Gospel of the kingdom
shall be preached in the whole world, for a testimony
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to all nations.” Mark xvi. 15-16: “Go ye into the
whole world, and preach the Gospel to every creature.
He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved ; but
he that believeth not shall be condemned.” Luke
x. 16: “He that heareth you heareth Me; and he
that despiseth you despiseth Me ; and he that
despiseth Me despiseth Him that sent Me.”
There is a strong tendency nowadays to deprecate
anything like proselytizing, not only amongst the
Christian bodies themselves, but even as regards
Christianity in relation to other religions. Very
many people are disposed to say, let us live and let
live. One hears it spoken of as matter for com
mendation that such and such a Christian body is
non-proselytizing. This may suit the fashion of the
modern mind very well. If, however, we consult
such texts as those just quoted, one thing is quite
certain, namely, that a form of Christianity which is
non-proselytizing is not the Church founded by Jesus
Christ.
(B) The True Church of Jesus Christ must
be intolerant.
Matt. x. 14-15 : “ And whosoever shall not receive
you, nor hear your words .... going forth out of that
house or city shake off the dust from your feet.
Amen, I say to you, it shall be more tolerable for
the land of Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of
judgement, than for that city.”
Matt, xviii. 17-18: “And if he will not hear the
Church, let him be to thee as the heathen and the
publican. Amen, I say to you, whatsoever you shall
bind upon earth shall be bound also in heaven ; and
whatsoever you shall loose upon earth shall be loosed
also in heaven.”
Gal. i. 8-9: “ But though we, or an angel from
heaven, preach a gospel to you besides that which we
have preached to you, let him be anathema. As we
said before, so now I say again : if anyone preach to
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you a gospel, besides that which you have received,
let him be anathema.”
Titus iii. io-i I : “ A man that is a heretic, after the
first and second admonition, avoid : knowing that he
that is such an one, is subverted, and sinneth, being
condemned by his own judgement.”
2 Peter ii. i : “ But there were also false prophets
among the people, even as there shall be among you
lying teachers, who shall bring in sects of perdition,
and deny the Lord who bought them ; bringing upon
themselves swift destruction.”
2 John io: “If any man come to you, and bring
not this doctrine, receive him not into the house, nor
say to him, God speed you.”
Ap. ii. 6 : “ But this thou hast, that thou hatest the
deeds of the Nicolaites, which I also hate.”
In speaking here of intolerance, it must be under
stood that I mean spiritual intolerance; I am not in
any way referring to the use of physical force for the
propagation or maintenance of religion. We are
beings compounded of soul and body, consequently
there is in us a rather natural tendency to translate
intellectual antagonisms to the physical plane, just
as we see that political opponents will sometimes
go from words to blows. As regards religion, it is
certainly quite contrary to the teaching of Jesus
Christ and the spirit of His religion to propagate
Christianity by force. How far it may be lawful
as an act of self-protection in order to maintain true
religion once firmly planted in a nation by the use
of the secular arm is a very difficult question to
settle. It is very often thrown in the teeth of
Catholics that in times past their Church endeavoured
to crush out nascent heresies by coercive measures.
But it is notorious that those Christian bodies the
members of which are most ready to upbraid the
Catholic Church on this head, themselves achieved
ascendancy by an unsparing use of the sword, the
gibbet, and the rack. Every Christian body in its-
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day of power has to a greater or less degree used
force to maintain its position, but we have only got
to look at the history of our country to be aware that
some forms of Christianity not only maintained
themselves when once established by a resort to
coercive measures, but actually ascended to power
by methods of propaganda which savour rather of
Mahomet than of Christ.
But to speak of spiritual intolerance, it is evident
that this is a necessary feature of the true Church
of Jesus Christ. He said that His word should
not pass away (Matt. xxiv. 35); it is a revelation
from God, and by consequence cannot tolerate any
contradiction. The society to which He committed
its conservation must be jealous of it as it must be
jealous of God’s honour. We must look, then, for
a Church which claims that she is the sole depository
of revealed truth, the only way of salvation ; which
will not associate in worship with any other religious
body; which holds itself exclusive and aloof; which
endeavours as far as possible to withdraw its members
from association with persons belonging to other
sects and religions; which deprecates mixed marri
ages ; which forbids the perusal of tainted literature;
in a word, we must look for a Church which is rigidly
intolerant. A Christianity which is undenominational,
a Church which is comprehensive, cannot possibly be
the Church founded by our Lord Jesus Christ.
(C) The True Church ofJesus Christ must be hated.
Matt. x. 25 : “ If they have called the goodman of
the house Beelzebub, how much more them of his
household.”
Matt. xxiv. 9: “You shall be hated by all nations
for my name’s sake.”
John xvii. 14: “I have given them Thy word, and
the world hath hated them, because they are not
of the world; as I also am not of the world.”
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2 Tim. iii. 12: “And all that will live godly in
Christ Jesus, shall suffer persecution.”
2 Pet. ii. 2 : “ And many shall follow their riotous
nesses, through whom the way of truth shall be
evil spoken of.”
We must look for a Church which is hated and
persecuted, not only by the irreligious world, but
which all other Christian bodies conspire to decry;
a Church which the nations endeavour to drive
out from their midst; which is held up to. obloquy
as the very acme of clericalism, obscurantism, and
soul-slavery ; which is set down as the foe of civiliza
tion ; a clog on the wheels of human progress ; a
kingdom within a kingdom; an enemy to the state;
the oppressor of freedom ; a blot upon the fair creation.
Such as this must be represented the True Church of
the persecuted Jesus Christ.
(D) The True Church of Jesus Christ must claim
to be infallible.
Matt. xvi. 18: “And I say to thee: that thou
art Peter; and upon this rock I will build my
Church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail
against it.”
John xiv. 16: “And I will ask the Father, and
He shall give you another Paraclete, that He may
abide with you for ever. The spirit of truth.”
John xviii. 37: “ For this was I born, and for
this came I into the world, that I should give testi
mony to the truth.”
1 Tim. iii. 15: “The Church of the living God,
the pillar and ground of the truth.”
1 Tim. iv. 1: “ Now the Spirit manifestly saith
that in the last times some shall depart from the
faith.”
Putting these tests together, we gather that Christ
came to impart revealed truth to men, that He
committed the faith He had taught to the Church
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established by Him, to it He promised the ever
abiding presence of the Spirit of Truth, and though
the gates of Hell shall war upon the Church and some
shall fall from the faith, yet the Church shall not
be overcome but will preserve inviolate the precious
treasure to the end of time. Many other texts which
will suggest themselves to the mind of the reader
might have been added to strengthen the argument,
but these are sufficient to prove that the Church is
an infallible custodian of the faith. Indeed, as I
have already indicated, it must be so, for the faith
is a revelation of God to men through Christ; He
offers it to the world by the mouth of His Church,
saying accept it if you would be saved, reject it and
you will be damned. Such an utterance would be
impossible unless the Church were an infallible
exponent of His teaching. It follows that a Christian
body that does not lay claim to infallibility cannot
possibly be the True Church of Jesus Christ.
(E) The True Church ofJesus Christ must be One.
John x. 16: “And other sheep I have that are not
of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall
hear my voice, and there shall be one fold and one
shepherd.”
John xi. 51—52 : “ He prophesied that Jesus should
die for the nation. And not only for the nation, but,
to gather together in one the children of God, that
were dispersed.”
John xvii. 20-22: “And not for them only do I
pray, but for them also who through their word shall
believe in Me; that they all may be one. . . . And
the glory which Thou hast given to Me, I have given
to them; that they may be one.” •
1 Cor. xii. 13: “For in one Spirit were we all
baptized into one body.”
Eph. iv. 5 : “ One Lord, one Faith, one Baptism.”
It is evident that our Lord founded one fold into
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which all men of good will should eventually be
gathered. Indeed it seems scarcely necessary to
point out that the Church must be one, for since she
is commissioned to teach truth with a consistent
voice, and truth is by its nature one while error is
manifold, it follows that there can be only one True
Church of Jesus Christ. Any theory, therefore, which
divides the Church into several Christian bodies
teaching discordant doctrines, manifestly gives the
lie to our Lord’s express promises, and outrages
the very dictates of reason.
(F) The True Church of Jesus Christ must be the
Church of all places.
Matt, xxviii. 19: “ Going therefore, teach ye all
nations.”
Col. iii. 11: “ Where there is neither Gentile nor
Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian nor
Scythian, bound nor free. But Christ is all, and in all;”
The Church may be crushed out of one place by
persecution, she may not yet have succeeded in
extending her sway over another place. But she
must be Catholic in aspiration and endeavour, pro
selytizing, militant, indomitable, aggressive. Any
body of Christians, therefore, that was founded as a
national or local institution, which the world at large
does not recognise as Catholic, cannot be the True
Church founded by Jesus Christ.
(G) The True Church ofJesus Christ must be the
Church of all times.
Matt, xxviii. 20: “ Behold I am with you all days
even to the consummation of the world.”
Mark xiii. 31 : “ My word shall not pass away.”
Eph. iii. 21: “ To Him be glory in the Church, and
in Jesus Christ unto all generations, world without
end, Amen.”
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1 Peter i. 24-25 : “ For all flesh is as grass ; and all
the glory thereof as the flower of grass. The grass
is withered, and the flower thereof is fallen away.
But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And
this is the word which by the Gospel hath been
preached to you.”
2 John ii.: “The truth which dwelleth in us and
shall be with us for ever.”
Ap. xiv. 6 : “ The eternal Gospel.”
Ap. xiv. 12: “Here is the patience of the Saints,
who keep the Commandments of God, and the faith
of Jesus.”
See also our Lord’s promise to St. Peter and the
different parables wherein He represents Himself as
one going into a far country and returning after
many days to see how His servants have fulfilled
their charge.
The True Church of Jesus Christ is therefore that
Church which has been from the beginning of its
foundation on the Day of Pentecost, has endured
through every age since up to the present, and
will continue till the end of time. It follows that
every body of Christians which has come into being as
a distinct and organized entity subsequent to the Day
of Pentecost cannot be the one founded by our Lord.
We must look for a Church which can trace her origin
without a break back to the Day of Pentecost if we
would find the True Church of Jesus Christ.
(H) The True Church ofJesus Christ must be a
Visible Church.
Matt. v. 14-15: “You are the light of the world.
A city seated on a mountain cannot be hid. Neither
do men light a candle and put it under a bushel, but
upon a candlestick, that it may shine to all that are
in the house.”
John xvii. 21 : “That they all may be one . . . .
that the world may believe that Thou has sent Me.”
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We have seen that the mission of Christ’s Church
upon earth is to offer to men the truth revealed by
Him : the rejection of which is a disobedience to God
so serious as to be punished by eternal damnation.
Obviously she could not fulfil this mission if she were
not visible. As such our Lord presents her to us,
“ a city seated on a mountain.” He even makes the
standing marvel of her visible oneness a proof to the
world of His own Divinity. And surely as we look
at the unity of the only .world-wide Church to-day, we
are constrained to confess that none but God could
have cemented in oneness of faith men of all nations
and tongues. The “ obedience to the faith, in all
nations” (Rom. i. 5). as we witness it at the present
day, after nearly two thousand years since it was first
preached, ought to be enough to convince the veriest
sceptic of the Divinity of Jesus Christ who has wrought
so great a wonder. Isaias the prophet, speaking of
the Church, likens her to “a straight way, so that
fools shall not err therein ” (xxxv. 8). She must,
then, be plainly visible, easy to find by those who
will look. Consequently any theory of an invisible
Church composed of all good men of every denomina
tion of Christians whose hearts are patent to none
but God, does not agree with the Church represented
to us in the language of our Lord, nor could such a
Church by any means fulfil the mission which was
committed by Him to His own True Church.
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a Kingdom.
Matt. xiii. 41 : “ The Son of Man shall send His
angels, and they shall gather out of His Kingdom all
scandals, and them that work iniquity.”
Matt. xvi. 19: “And I will give to thee the keys
of the Kingdom of Heaven.”
Matt. xix. 23 : “ Amen, I say to you, that a rich
man shall hardly enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.”
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John iii. 5 : “ Amen, amen, I say to thee, unless a
man be born again of water and the Holy Ghost, he
cannot enter into the Kingdom of God.”
See also the numerous other passages which speak
of the Kingdom of God with evident reference to the
Church militant, and consult the many prophecies
of the Old Testament which predict the founding by
God upon earth of a Kingdom greater and more
lasting than all the mighty empires that ever have
been or shall be.
Since, then, the Church of Jesus Christ is, as we
have seen, one visible Kingdom, and since the
Supreme Ruler is no longer visibly with us, it behoves
us to look for a society monarchical in constitution,
having a vicegerent duly appointed by Him. A
Christian society, therefore, the constitution whereof
is democratic, stands self-condemned, it is not the
True Church of Jesus Christ. There are, however,
many Christian bodies with at least, to outward
seeming, a monarchical form of government: in their
cases we must inquire into how the ruler holds his
title.
There are some churches which own the
temporal sovereign of the realm for their head;
he then must show that he has received his title
and authority from our Lord. This will be a difficult
matter, since in all Christendom there is no dynasty,
no throne coeval with Christianity. We must ex
clude, therefore, the Erastian churches, which, like
the Jews of old, have chosen Caesar instead of Christ.
The same with the churches that own a spiritual
head; on them also it is incumbent that they should
prove that their title has come down to them by
legitimate succession : the mandate of their authority
having been given to the first of their line by our
Lord Himself. Applying this test, we perceive that
it can only reside in some episcopal see founded by
one of the Apostles; any see which came into exist
ence after the life-time of the Apostles is ipso facto
excluded from competing. Which of the Apostles
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received any such mandate of authority from our
Lord ? There is only one.
(K) The True Church ofJesus Christ must be
founded on Peter.
Matt. xvi. 18-19 : “ And I say to thee, that thou art
Peter; and upon this rock I will build my Church,
and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
And I will give to. thee the keys of the Kingdom of
Heaven. And whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth,
it shall be bound also in heaven ; and whatsoever
thou shalt loose on earth, it shall be loosed also in
heaven.”
Luke xxii. 31-32: “And the Lord said, Simon,
Simon, behold Satan hath desired to have you that
he may sift you as wheat; but I have prayed for
thee, that thy faith fail not; and thou, being once
converted, confirm thy brethren.”
John xxi. 15-17: “Feed my lambs. . . . Feed my
lambs. . . . Feed my sheep.”
These three principal Petrine texts are so well
known as to need no comment. They are so clear
that the marvel is that any comment should be
necessary. The first implies Papal infallibility, show
ing that the Church derives her own infallibility from
the rock of Peter upon which our Lord founded her.
The second shows to what questions Papal infallibility
extends, namely the whole of our Lord’s teaching as
to right belief and right conduct, which is the subject
matter of Christian faith. The third shows that the
personal backsliding of Peter or any of his successors
-does not deprive them of their official prerogative.
Any Christian body, therefore, which does not claim,
or fails to establish its claim, to be in some way
founded by our Lord upon the rock of Peter, cannot
be the True Church of Jesus Christ. We know of
only one that even makes such a claim : the Church
whose centre is at Rome, the ancient bishopric of
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St. Peter. Other sees have at times risen up against
the authority of Peter’s see, but the touch-stone of
time has always justified our Lord’s prophetic words.
Take the example of the most illustrious rebel, the
Patriarch of Constantinople : compare his past power
with his present impotence. Already nation after
nation has thrown off his usurped sway. What is
likely to happen now that the last traces of the Moslem
power, which for its own ends has upheld him, is
being swept away? Let me quote the words of a
really first-rate authority on Eastern ecclesiastical
questions (A. F., The Tablet, Nov. 16th 1912.) “Only
the CEcumenical Patriarch will suffer badly. He
will have no Patriarchate in Europe left. He will
keep Asia Minor and his honorary precedence. But
for centuries it has been coming to that. He got his
high place solely by the grace of the old Emperors:
he has always stood solely by the power of his
temporal sovereign at Constantinople. As the Turks
conquered new territory he quashed the churches of
Achrida and Ipek and joined them to his own
Patriarchate. So it is but just that, as the Turk
retires, the power of the Patriarch should retire too.
Long enough has this upstart Patriarch lorded it over
his more venerable brothers at Alexandria and
Antioch.” Compare this with the world-wide sway
of the Sovereign Pontiff, a ruler who is not a figure
head : we perceive resident in him the royalty of Jesus
Christ. Is the unparalleled power of the Papacy
founded on an illusion ? Is it the most gigantic fraud
the world has ever witnessed ? Or is it the throne
of Christ’s monarchy ? One of these three things it
must be. I think the conscientious inquirer, who
really sets his mind to the question, cannot remain
long in doubt as to his answer.
I might, dear reader, have extended yet further
our consideration of the characteristics which desig'
nate the True Church of Jesus Christ: on those
points which I have chosen I might have multiplied
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the texts and illustrations. But the space of a short
pamphlet would not permit this. I will ask you,
however, to consider these characteristics as 1 have
presented them to you, not taking them only one
by one, but also collectively, and you will perceive
that they are all interrelated and focussed to a
single point, which indicates most clearly that the
One True Church of Jesus Christ is that world-wide
Church which acknowledges the authority of the
successor of St. Peter, Pope of Rome. Into this,
the fold of Christ, you are under strictest obligation
to enter, and the penalty of your refusal is eternal
damnation. Only one excuse will avail you at the
day of your judgement, namely that you did not
know ; nor will this always avail, for if it is found
that your ignorance is the result of reluctance to
inquire or sheer carelessness amounting to great
fault, your excuse will not be admitted, you will be
irrevocably damned. Whosoever can contemplate
the prospect of eternal damnation unmoved must
surely be wanting in imagination and intelligence.
Hasten, therefore, and let nothing deter you, neither
fear of ridicule, nor estrangement of friends, nor
loss of fortune, nor that which is hardest of all, your
own innate repugnance to bow the neck. Serve we
must; it is the necessary lot of human existence, be
the man Pope, or Emperor, or simple husbandman.
Do not be deceived by those “ promising liberty,
whereas they themselves are the slaves of corruption ”
(2 Pet. ii. 19): service is essential to man, and we
must choose between Christ and Satan. The evi
dence is clear which constrains you to acknowledge
the truth of Christ’s Church: so clear that were it
applied to any other matter, no one would doubt
for a moment. But this is a question where human
reason is insufficient unaided by the light of faith.
Nor will that light break in upon a soul which
wilfully excludes it: our Lord has told us so—“if
thy eye be single, thy whole body shall be lightsome.
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But if thy eye be evil, thy whole body shall be
darksome” (Matt. vi. 22-23). This divine utterance
has been pushed almost to the point of exaggeration
by such deep thinkers as Pascal and Newman: it
is not want of evidence which makes it difficult for
us to perceive revealed truth, it is because the right
dispositions of soul are lacking. Pride, prejudice,
self-interest, the glamour of passion, spiritual sloth—
these, and suchlike things, are they that impede the
divine light from entering. Sweep them away, then,
if you would save your soul. But there is a motive
which urges you higher even and more noble than
the quest of your soul’s salvation. It is a spirit of
loving loyalty to the God who “ was seen upon
earth and conversed with men ” (Bar. iii. 38). Surely
it is a joy and an honour to fight under the banner
of Jesus Christ the Incarnate Creator. Dire, in
truth, is the conflict, but short; unending is the
reward, bright the everlasting crown. Enter, there
fore, the True Church of Jesus Christ, for He has
shown to us no other vestibule on earth of the
heavenly city to which we aspire “ having the glory
of God, and the light thereof was like to a precious
stone, as to a jasper stone, even as crystal. . . . And
the city hath no need of the sun, nor of the moon
to shine in it. For the glory of God hath enlightened
it and the Lamb is the lamp thereof. And the
nations shall walk in the light of it: and the kings
of the earth shall bring their glory and honour into
it. And the gates thereof shall not be shut by day :
for there shall be no night there. And they shall
bring the glory and honour of the nations into it.
There shall not enter into it any thing defiled, or
that worketh abomination, or maketh a lie, but they
that are written in the book of life of the Lamb”
(Ap. xxi.).
PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY THE CATHOLIC TRUTH SOCIETY, LONDON.
n.—Mar. 1913.
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Victorian Blogging
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A collection of digitised nineteenth-century pamphlets from Conway Hall Library & Archives. This includes the Conway Tracts, Moncure Conway's personal pamphlet library; the Morris Tracts, donated to the library by Miss Morris in 1904; the National Secular Society's pamphlet library and others. The Conway Tracts were bound with additional ephemera, such as lecture programmes and handwritten notes.<br /><br />Please note that these digitised pamphlets have been edited to maximise the accuracy of the OCR, ensuring they are text searchable. If you would like to view un-edited, full-colour versions of any of our pamphlets, please email librarian@conwayhall.org.uk.<br /><br /><span><img src="http://www.heritagefund.org.uk/sites/default/files/media/attachments/TNLHLF_Colour_Logo_English_RGB_0_0.jpg" width="238" height="91" alt="TNLHLF_Colour_Logo_English_RGB_0_0.jpg" /></span>
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Conway Hall Library & Archives
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2018
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Conway Hall Ethical Society
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The true church of Jesus Christ
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Northcote, Philip M.
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Place of publication: London
Collation: 16 p. ; 19 cm.
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Catholic Truth Society
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[1913]
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RA1535
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<img src="http://i.creativecommons.org/p/mark/1.0/88x31.png" alt="Public Domain Mark" /><br />This work (The true church of Jesus Christ), identified by <span><a href="www.conwayhall.org.uk">Humanist Library and Archives</a></span>, is free of known copyright restrictions.
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application/pdf
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English
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Catholic Church
Jesus Christ
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Catholic Church-Apologetic Works