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is interesting to think of this school at 

 Frankfort-on-the-Oder standing in the 

 same relation to the Reformed Church and 

 to the Lutheran as Union Theological 

 Seminary stands to the Old and New 

 School Presbyterians, — dedicated to peace 

 and compromise from its very origin. It 

 was this same Frankfort group which first 

 gave publicity to that golden word : " In 

 necessary things unity, in things indiffer- 

 ent liberty, in all charity." This is the 

 noble motto of the Evangelical Alliance. 

 We are indebted to Richard Baxter for in- 

 troducing this sentence to the English 

 world, which he does in his "True and 

 Only Way of Concord of All Christian 

 Churches." 1 There Baxter says : " Were 

 there no more said of all this subject but 

 that of Rupertus Meldenius, cited by Con- 

 raclus Bergius, it might end all schism if 

 well understood and used, viz. : Si in neces- 

 sariis sit tcnitas, in non-necessariis libertas, 

 in utrisque caritas, optimo certe loco essent 

 res nostrae, — Unity in things necessary, Lib- 

 erty in things unnecessary, and Charity in 

 both, would do all our work." A professor 

 in Union Seminary has the honor of first 



1 London, 1680- 



