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catholic plans of Yan Dyke. These plans 

 he ridiculed by calling them simply an 

 " agreement that Christians shall not bite 

 and devour one another." On the con- 

 trary, said Bishop Smith, it is futile to talk 

 about Christian union until all Christians 

 are agreed in one outward form of church 

 organization. " What sort of union," says 

 Bishop Smith, " among the followers of 

 Christ should be proposed ? Shall they be 

 called upon to unite in some way or another 

 as they now stand divided ; or are they 

 bound to agree in one outward form of 

 Christianity? For our part we most ex- 

 plicitly avow our conviction that every 

 attempt to put a stop to the dissensions 

 and subdivisions which distract the Church 

 must forever prove futile, until Christians 

 are agreed in one outward form of Chris- 



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tianity. To talk about union in feeling 

 and spirit, whilst there is disunion in fact, is 

 about as wise as to exhort those to love one 

 another between whom occasion of deadly 

 feud exists." Bishop Smith himself was a 

 Hig-h Churchman. He considered "one 

 of the grand mistakes of the Reforma- 

 tion a separation from the Church instead 

 of reformation in the Church." This hos- 



