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before. It must be immense enough to 

 include us nil, pretty much as we are. It 

 will have to consist mainly in a new spirit, 

 as I have said; in the better way in which 

 we shall regard, approach, and help one 

 another. 



As it is not possible, so neither is it neces- 

 sary or desirable that the various denomina- 

 tions should merge into a homogeneous 

 bod}\ All need not teach the same views 

 concerning either doctrine or polity. What 

 is needed is*that all church people as such 

 should come to believe — effectively — 

 what nearly all even now privately ac- 

 knowledge, that polity is good for nothing 

 save as an instrument in the Church's saving 

 work; that church orders and ordinances 

 were made for men, not men for them. 

 Let this truth be taken up into Christian 

 teaching everywhere, and the Christian 

 love in good men's hearts will spontane- 

 ously prompt them, whenever the two 

 interests clash, to subordinate mere matters 

 of polity to the promotion of truth, the 

 salvation of wicked men, and the edifica- 

 tion of good men. 



A main reason why proper catholicity 

 in feeling is so desirable is that it would 



