Excerpt from A Complete Manual of Canon Law, Vol. 1 IN the hope that these Short Manuals may contribute in some small degree to help forward that unity for which Christ prayed, by diminishing the prejudice, misunderstanding, and ignorance which is so largely responsible for the present divided state of Christendom, the present volume containing the first series is offered to the public. We have it on the authority of Christ Himself that He came into the world to be at once the Way, the Truth, and the Life, and that He left it to His Church to carry on the work which He began. It is, therefore, and must ever be the office of the Church to hold Him up to the end of time as the Way, the Truth, and the Life. In order to manifest Christ as the Way to God, the Church is called upon to be itself the commonwealth of righteousness, the light of the world, the reflection of Him who is the true Light. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.