you who say, ’I am of Cephas,’ are right; all others are schismatics.”  Never, apparently, had a man a better opportunity of revealing to the world this great secret of unity than St. Paul had, if such was his faith, especially when he compares the Church to a building, and speaks of a foundation-stone.  “As a wise master-builder,” he says, “I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon....  For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is”—­Cephas, or the rock?  No! but “Jesus Christ.”  Not one word of Cephas as the centre of unity.  Strange silence for a “Roman Catholic!”

Had Paul been a “High Churchman,” viewing with deep awe the mystery of sacramental grace, we can understand how he would have spoken to the schismatic Corinthians of the vast importance of their submitting to absolute apostolic authority, and of “the awful powers with which God’s ministers had been vested, of regenerating souls by the waters of baptism;” and how “such a clergy should command unqualified obedience.”  If these, or anything like these, were Paul’s sentiments, and such as we are every day familiar with, it is not easy, to say the least of it, to account for his language to the Corinthians.  What does he say of the exalted privilege of being able to baptize?  “I thank God I baptized none of you, but Crispus and Gaius:”  strange words from a “High Churchman!” or a “High” Baptist!  “I baptized also the household of Stephanas:  besides, I know not whether I baptized any other:”  strange forgetfulness on such a supposed centre point of Church unity!  “For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel:”  strange idea of the relative importance of preaching and baptizing for a “High Churchman” to hold!  And as to the “commanding authority” of the apostles, merely because they were apostles, apart from, the commanding authority of the eternal truth which they “commended” to the conscience and judgment of their hearers, Paul asks, “Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos?” Methinks we hear some exclaim:  “Oh, these men were the greatest, the most remarkable, the”—­We will not, however, take up space by repeating the laudations with which some would exalt their authority, with the view of magnifying the mere official authority of the clergy.  But what says the apostle himself?  He says they were only “ministers by whom ye believed.”  It was not the minister who did good, but the truth which he ministered, and which he had received from another.  It was not the man who sowed the seed, or the basket which held it, that gave the crop; but the living seed itself.  Hence he adds:  “So then neither is he that planteth anything, nor he that watereth!” What?  Neither presbyter nor bishop, neither Paul nor Apollos, anything?  Strange words, again we say, from a “High Churchman,” whether Episcopalian, Presbyterian, or any other denomination; for “High Churchmen” are common to all Churches.  Yet not strange from St Paul, who knew how true his words were, and that not man, but God, who gave the increase, was “everything.”