THE GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF 

 CHURCH UNITY 



THE cause of Church Unity still lives. 

 Some of our denominational jour- 

 nals may seem to have been burying it 

 with military honors, — But burying it 

 only in enigy. It rises again before us, 

 not as a spectre from the grave, but as 

 the queen of the heavenly graces, with a 

 train of reverend and learned advocates. 

 It has long had its enthusiastic friends 

 who were discreetly praised as amiable 

 visionaries ; now, apparently, it has some 

 alarmed foes, who have betrayed no lan- 

 guid interest in the " iridescent dream- 

 ers." And so it takes its place among 

 the living issues of the day. 



THE CHURCH UNITY MOVEMENT 



Is any issue more living ? He must be 

 blind indeed who does not see that the 

 movement for church unity has become 



