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bring certain needed changes in churches' 

 external relations. We see this in the 

 pleasing fact that no sooner does the need 

 of church unity begin to be earnestly 

 discussed than you have the Young Men's 

 Christian Association, the Evangelical 

 Alliance, with the local denominational 

 alliances to which it is now happily giving 

 birth, the Grindelwald Conference, origin- 

 ated and inspired by Dr. Lunn, the great 

 Society of Christian Endeavorers, and a 

 thousand other forms of interdenomina- 

 tional co-operation, reciprocity, and comity 

 which recently did not exist. This move- 

 ment will be extended further. 



A plan so simple that it has occurred 

 even to me would, if carried out, as it has 

 begun to be, annul many baneful results 

 of present schism. 



Let the denominations represented in 

 any State each elect one well-known min- 

 ister and one well-known layman to serve 

 with similar officers from the other denom- 

 inations, upon a State Advisory Church 

 Advancement Committee. Let this com- 

 mittee diligently look over the newest 

 fields and publish opinions like the fol- 

 lowing: In our judgment the religious 



