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while tho creeds named in Article II. 

 might easily be so modified as not to ex- 

 clude even Unitarian Christians. Serious 

 friction arises only touching the episco- 

 pate ; and at present this is serious indeed. 

 Most non-Episcopalians deem the bishops 

 intent merely on getting Nonconformists 

 under their authority, while many Episco- 

 palians think the Lambeth proposals a 

 mistake anyway, and charge the bishops 

 who published them with recreancy to 

 church principles. At any rate, it is said, 

 the bishops must admit to their orders 

 only such non-Episcopal ministers as re- 

 nounce their non-Episcopal ordination. 

 Few of the Presbyterian, Congregational, 

 or Baptist clergy will ever do this. But 

 a great many clergymen in these bodies 

 stand ready, for the sake of promoting 

 church unity, to take bishops' orders so 

 soon as any bishops are ready to ordain 

 them, with the understanding that their 

 original ordination is not abjured ; and so 

 soon, further, as such enlarged ordination 

 is reasonably likely not to result in merely 

 creating a new denomination. The condi- 

 tions for this momentous step toward the 

 final church polity do not yet exist. The 



