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has been perpetuated by the American 

 presbyteries with scrupulous care through 

 all their conflicts and separations. As to 

 the strictly post-reformation communions, 

 such as the Congregationalist, Baptist, and 

 Methodist churches, so dominant in our 

 evangelical Christianity, it need only be 

 said that, although they do not formally 

 profess the Lambeth principles, yet they 

 are practically agreed in the first two 

 articles ; might find a consensus in the 

 sacramental article by mutual tolerance; 

 and could have their congregational, pres- 

 byterial, and episcopal elements normally 

 combined in the historic episcopate, as in 

 the undivided Apostolic Church, without 

 loss of principle or prestige. In a word, 

 when thus harmonized, the concord of 

 Anglican with Protestant Christianity al- 

 most drowns the discord. 



PKOTESTANT AND CATHOLIC EEUKION 



In order to complete this survey let us 

 now imagine Catholicism to have been re- 

 united, and Protestantism to have been 

 reunited, each on the Lambeth basis. 

 The problem would then remain, to re- 

 unite Protestantism with Catholicism on 



