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posals. Other like associations arc only 



in part upon that basis, or not in full 

 accord with those proposals. Experience 

 has shown that Church Unity societies, as 

 composed exclusively of Episcopal clergy- 

 men, cannot, by the necessity of the case, 

 admit non-Episcopal ministers to a frank 

 and full discussion of the general princi- 

 ples of the Quadrilateral platform. Ecclesi- 

 astical conferences, like that between the 

 Presbyterian and Episcopal commissions, 

 though meeting on the Quadrilateral plat- 

 form, are managed by representative di- 

 vines, — always tenacious, sometimes justly 

 enough tenacious, as to their respective 

 rights and dignities. But in the Council 

 of the Catholic League, or in one of its 

 Local Circles, both Episcopal and non- 

 Episcopal ministers, Congregationalists, 

 and Presbyterians, as well as Episcopa- 

 lians, may meet upon the Lambeth basis 

 with equal rights and privileges, without 

 restraint or embarrassment, and in a social 

 atmosphere favorable to the utmost candor 

 and fraternity. At the same time such a 

 band of enthusiastic students, in such cir- 

 cumstances and under such influences, by 

 their discussions and printed papers, would 



