THE 

 CHICAGO-LAMBETH ARTICLES 



T 



HE invitation which brings me here 

 this evening named as the topic for 

 my consideration what are known as the 

 Chicago-Lambeth Articles. Those articles, 

 however, have formed the subject of dis- 

 cussions on both sides of the Atlantic for 

 nearly ten years, and I should be a far 

 bolder and more self-confident person than 

 I am if I could hope to contribute to what 

 has already been said in regard to them 

 any very helpful or substantial word. 

 More than this, it may be well for me to 

 say at the outset, that the recent action, 

 or rather non-action, of the Chief Council 

 of the Protestant Episcopal Church with 

 reference to such constitutional or canoni- 

 cal enactment as would make those arti- 

 cles more speedily or practically effective, 

 may well discourage any one whose rela- 



