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national peculiarities in both the American 

 and Anglican churches, and to plant them 

 in the midst of all English-speaking com- 

 munions as tenets of Catholic unity. There 

 they stand to-day. They may be deserted 

 by those who planted them there, and be 

 left as a monumental folly on the high- 

 way of time ; or they may become hence- 

 forth the rallying standard of a reunited 

 Christendom. 



Without attempting a full exposition of 

 these principles, we need only in this lec- 

 ture take a general view of their fitness to 

 the ecclesiastical situation in our own 

 country. They may be regarded as afford- 

 ing a consensus of Catholic churches ; of 

 Protestant churches; of Protestant with 

 Catholic churches. 



THE LAMBETH CONSENSUS OF CATHOLIC 

 CHURCHES. 



And first let us consider their fitness to 

 those great historic churches, the Ortho- 

 dox Greek and Roman Catholic* which 

 though they have their seat in Europe, 

 extend their jurisdiction over portions of 

 the American people. The Greek Church, 

 numbering some eighty-four millions in 



