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church unity point of view, there is no 

 need to say a word against our ritualistic 

 friends, or to assail their view of apostolic 

 succession. The historic episcopate is 

 large enough to include them, and we may 

 hope that our enlightened bishops will 

 give them all the room they want, pro- 

 vided that room enough be left for those 

 Presbyterian churchmen, otherwise called 

 Evangelical Catholics, who gladly accept 

 all that is transmissible from the apostles 

 and can even admire an artistic liturgy, 

 if not obliged to adopt all the Roman 

 dogmas sometimes couched under its 

 S} r mbolism. 



There is still another Presbyterian mis- 

 conception as to the supposed accompani- 

 ments or consequences of the Lambeth ten- 

 ets. It is feared that they are only an enter- 

 ing wedge, and are so bound up with the 

 constitution of the Protestant Episcopal 

 Church that they will yet draw after them 

 all its legislative machinery. Well, even 

 if that were so, an elective episcopate, with 

 Presbyterian deputies, would not be an un- 

 forbidden in the Quadrilateral. It is this largeness of 

 interpretation which makes the historic episcopate at 

 once so ample and so tenacious a bond of church unity. 

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