9G CHURCH UNITY 



Denominations will still stand, and each 

 have an even better chance than now to 

 show what grace is in it ; but, in case the 

 response becomes general, feeble, dying 

 churches will be far less numerous in our 

 hamlets and border settlements ; city con- 

 gregations will cease to crowd each other ; 

 co-operation will supplant anarchy; all 

 missionary fields will be cultivated up to 

 the limit of the resources of the total 

 church ; immense economies in the way 

 of theological teaching, and missionary, 

 educational, and philanthropic machinery 

 will be introduced; and the golden age 

 of perfected humanity be hastened in a 

 thousand ways. 



After all this is done, however, much 

 will probably remain undone. Certain 

 real modifications of church organization 

 will no doubt ultimately be required to 

 give the coming catholicity practical effect. 

 Mere correct feeling, theory, and doctrine, 

 with comity and casual co-operation, will 

 not suffice. The spirit of comprehension 

 must and will create itself organs where- 

 by to act upon the world. 



However, touching the changes needed 

 by the Church in its essential constitution, 



