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tantism and repair the destructive effects 

 of tlif Reformation. We shall secure at 

 once a sounder Protestantism and a more 

 constructive reformation, and so recover 

 all that is best in Catholic Christianity 

 while retaining all that is best in Protestant 

 culture. And then, too, we shall have the 

 vantage ground for influencing the older 

 communions; in no hostile manner, but 

 externally, by surrounding them, especially 

 in this country, with the organized Christian 

 intelligence of the age ; and internally, by 

 combining with any fresh Protestantism 

 and new reformation within their own 

 pale. It is mainly, if not solely, by a reac- 

 tionary influence of Protestantism upon 

 Catholicism that the two can ever be pre- 

 pared for mutual appreciation, on the basis 

 of common ecclesiastical principles. In a 

 word, the reunion of Anglo-Saxon Christi- 

 anity is essential to its reunion with Latin 

 and Greek Christianity. 



THE PPESBYTEPIAN AND EPISCOPAL 

 CHURCHES 



The other inference is, that in this work 

 of Protestant unification the Presbyterian 



