THE SIN OF SCHISM <)\) 



differences as to the form, and, in part, 

 as to the subjects of baptism. But these 

 differences did not at first or for a long 

 time divide them, and have never, to this 

 day, caused the entire separation of the 

 two bodies in Great Britain. Likely 

 enough, were these denominations to unite, 

 many a congregation would be made up 

 mainly of immersionists, many another 

 mainly of non-immersionists, just as now 

 within the Baptist denomination particular 

 congregations vary greatly from one an- 

 other in their thought and practice about 

 communion. Some friction would natur- 

 ally arise from these diverse procedures, 

 but the danger from this source is cer- 

 tainly not sufficient to justify in this age 

 the out-and-out duality of two Christian 

 bodies so closely akin to one another. 



This union being effected, there would 

 be beautiful hope of coalescence between 

 the body thus formed and the Presbyteri- 

 ans. The notion of presbytery is not 

 strange to Congregationalists or to Bap- 

 tists. Those who wish episcopacy gen- 

 eralized lay stress upon its early origin 

 and very wide prevalence in the Church. 

 But the presbyter is at once a more an- 



