distinct Confession of Faith) that they have not even _directly_ altered much more? Notoriety through newspapers is surely no ground to stand upon in religion. And now it appears that the unlettered rustic needs two guides--one to show him exactly how much they have altered, whether two points or two hundred, as well as _which_ two or two hundred; another to teach him how far these original changes may have carried with them secondary changes as consequences into other parts of the Christian system. One of the known changes, viz. the doctrine of popular election as the proper qualification for parish clergymen, possibility is not fitted to expand itself or ramify, except by analogy. But the other change, the infinity which has been suddenly turned off like a jet of gas, or like the rushing of wind through the tubes of an organ, upon the doctrine and application of _spirituality_, seems fitted for derivative effects that are innumerable. Consequently, we say of the Non-intrusionists--not only that they are no church; but that they are not even any separate body of Dissenters, until they have published a "Confession" or a _revised_ edition of the Scottish Confession. IV. Lastly, we have to sum and to appreciate the _ultimate_ consequences of these things. Let us pursue them to the end of the vista.--First in order stands the dreadful shock to the National Church Establishment; and that is twofold: it is a shock from without, acting through opinion, and a shock from within, acting through the contagion of example. Each case is separately perfect. Through the opinion of men standing _outside_ of the church, the church herself suffers wrong in her authority. Through the contagion of sympathy stealing over men _inside_ of the church, peril arises of other shocks in a second series, which would so exhaust the church by reiterated convulsions, as to leave her virtually dismembered and shattered for all her great national functions.