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the characteristic movement of modern 

 Christendom. Other questions, matters 

 of doctrine or policy, may agitate certain 

 portions of the Church here and there; 

 but this is the one question which moves 

 the whole Church everywhere, in both 

 hemispheres. There is no corner of the 

 Christian world, no outpost of Christian 

 missions, to which it has not penetrated ; 

 and no grade of the Christian ministry, 

 from the Pope himself down to the hum- 

 blest evangelist, that has not voiced its 

 claims. The Roman Church has been 

 proposing terms of unity to the Greek 

 Church, on the one hand, and to the An- 

 glican Church on the other; the Angli- 

 can Church has been proposing terms to 

 the other reformed churches; and all 

 churches in the United States have been 

 proposing terms to one another. Not only 

 have kindred churches, long estranged, 

 been reuniting, — Congregational with 

 Congregational, Presbyterian with Presby- 

 terian, Episcopal with Episcopal ; not only 

 have groups of such churches been forming 

 international alliances, — Pan-Anglican, 

 Pan-Presbyterian, Pan-Congregationalist, 

 Pan-Methodist; but ready champions of 



