50 CHURCH UNITY 



mixed calamity. It is conceivable that 

 Presbyterians and Episcopalians might 

 live happily together in such an Ameri- 

 can church as contrasted with the un- 

 presbyterianized Church of England. But 

 the truth is, that the Lambeth principles 

 are no longer solely Anglican or American 

 in their limitations. In considering them 

 we are no more concerned with the Pro- 

 testant Episcopal Church than with the 

 Church of England, and no more con- 

 cerned with the Church of England than 

 with any other portion of the Catholic 

 Church. We are only concerned with 

 the historic episcopate as represented by 

 the Anglican branch of it. Theoretically, 

 we are not even concerned with the Angli- 

 can branch of it, since the same bond of 

 church unity might be effected with the 

 Moravian, Swedish, or Old Catholic branch 

 of it. Practically, however, we are most 

 naturally and hopefully concerned with 

 our American College of Bishops, who 

 have openly shown that they are at once 

 the most cautious and the most progres- 

 sive part of the communion to which they 

 belong, at least as respects church unity. 

 They have nobly taken a position outside 



