GENERAL PRINCIPLES 



From the Protestant side, also, the ap- 

 proaches have been of a mixed issue, 

 divisive as well as conciliatory. The 

 Anglo-Catholic revival, however just and 

 beautiful in itself, has thus far bred a 

 harvest of reverts to Romanism, and is 

 necessarily accompanied with an anti- 

 papal policy not conducive to reunion. 

 It is a jarring note even in the Chicago 

 and Lambeth declarations. The Protes- 

 tant reaction in other reformed churches, 

 though inevitable and wise, is still over- 

 charged with hatred of popery, and even 

 meets the most patriotic advances with 

 fresh outbursts of native Americanism. 

 He must shut his eyes to facts who looks 

 for a new Protestant Catholicism to be 

 reached at a bound, as by a feat of logic 

 or stroke of policy. That distant goal 

 can only be approached with slow and 

 painful steps, through alternate defeat 

 and victory, as a conquered peace of the 

 Church. 



PROTESTANT UNIFICATION A 

 PRE-REQUISTTE 



My design in thus stating this great 

 problem has not been to indulge in mere 



