GENERAL PRINCIPLES 29 



Christendom, prevails as yet only in the 

 territory of Alaska, with a few scattered 

 congregations in our cities ; but religious 

 or political events may yet give it more 

 American importance. It possesses all the 

 Four Lambeth Principles, encumbered by 

 dogmas and rites more or less inconsistent 

 with them. It holds the first article, while 

 adding the authority of tradition to that of 

 Scripture. It holds the second article, 

 while rejecting from the Nicene Creed the 

 clause which teaches the double procession 

 of the Holy Spirit from the Father and the 

 Son (Filioque). It holds the third article, 

 but adds to the two sacraments of our Lord 

 the church sacraments of confirmation, 

 penance, holy orders, extreme unction, and 

 matrimony; administers baptism and the 

 eucharist to mere infants, with trine immer- 

 sion and presbyterial confirmation ; and 

 includes in its ritual the intercession of 

 saints, the adoration of the Virgin, and the 

 worship of sacred pictures. It holds the 

 fourth article, though superimposing upon 

 the historic episcopate a patriarchate which 

 at times has rivalled the papacy. The 

 Roman Catholic Church, numbering two 

 hundred and fifteen millions of Christians, 



