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advantage. All will one day see this. 

 The bishops' churches, knowing it already, 

 will be so anxious for the generalization of 

 the overseership that they will not be too 

 scrupulous about the manner of effecting 

 the consummation. 



By and by, I believe, the Chicago- 

 Lambeth overture will bear fruit. All are 

 acquainted with the nature of this. The 

 Anglican Council, consisting of all the 

 Protestant Episcopal bishops of Great 

 Britain, the British colonies, and the 

 United States, in 1888, at the last of 

 the three meetings, — it was held at Lam- 

 beth Palace, London, the meeting being 

 attended by one hundred and forty-live 

 bishops of Great Britain and America, — 

 adopted, with slight modifications, a pro- 

 gramme for the reunion of Christendom, 

 which had, in 1886, been proposed by the 

 House of Bishops in the General Conven- 

 tion of the Protestant Episcopal Church 

 of the United States. This programme 

 consists of four articles : — 



"I. The Holy Scriptures of the Old and 



New Testaments, as ' containing all things 

 necessary to salvation,' and as being the rule 

 and ultimate standard of faith. 



