"Finally, let us all scrupulously attend to the nourishment and exercise of the catholic principle. Let us impress upon our minds the necessity of 'keeping the heart with all diligence, for out of it' arise 'schisms' and 'strifes.' Let us watch over ourselves, and guard against every circumstance that may diminish candour, pervert the judgment, or poison the affections. As Christians, let us war with what separates man from God; as dissenters, with what separates Christian from Christian. Let us seek the nearer approximation of church to church, and the ultimate recognition and union of all. Let each of us so enter into the spirit of our faith, and so feel the propriety and understand the reasons of our ecclesiastical position, as to be able to say with boldness and truth, 'I am a Dissenter, because I am a Catholic; I am a separatist, because I cannot be schismatical; I stand apart from some, because I love all; I oppose establishments, because I am not a sectarian; I think little of uniformity, because I long for union; I care not about subordinate differences with my brother, for CHRIST _has received him_, and so will _I_; thus, cultivating the spirit of universal love, I am hastening, I hope, that day when the world itself shall become the church, and preparing, I trust, for that world in which the church shall be ONE--one in faith, in feeling, and in worship; in a higher sense than can be witnessed here. While here, however, so far as the _spirit_ and _expression_ of affection is concerned, I am longing to witness and realize some approach to what I anticipate hereafter,--anticipate in that region where, amid the lustre and the loveliness of heaven, the jars and the jealousies of earth shall have passed away.' This, brethren, _ought_ to be the feeling and the consciousness of 'all who profess and call themselves Christians.' It ought pre-eminently to be ours. May God make it to be so, and to be so universally, by pouring down upon his church the Spirit from on high; and by diffusing and sustaining in every part of it the strength of love, and the meekness of wisdom! Amen." _A Memoir of the Rev. James Upton, late of Church Street, Blackfriars; the Addresses delivered at the Interment, by the Rev. G. Pritchard and the Rev. W. B. Collyer, D.D., with the Funeral Sermons by the Rev. Dr. Newman and the Rev. J. Davis, the Present Pastor._