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tions are such as mine from urging their 

 consideration or pressing their acceptance 

 upon others. 



It would, indeed, be easy enough to an- 

 swer to this last criticism, that any great 

 movement advances usually by more or 

 less unequal, or apparently unequal, steps. 

 An idea is broached, a general statement 

 is made, a basis of action is proposed, which 

 to many earnest minds seems precisely 

 what they have been waiting for. Over 

 against them as they look out upon the 

 future of some great interest or institution 

 there is a situation which, in many of its 

 most obvious aspects, is full of perplexity 

 and peril. It cannot be denied, I think, 

 that this is a widespread sentiment with 

 those Avho love our common Master, and 

 who desire the spread of his kingdom, as 

 to-day they look out upon the manifold 

 divisions of Christendom. A late issue of 

 a leading foreign ecclesiastical journal pub- 

 lishes the names and the number of new 

 sects that have come into existence and 

 have been formally registered in Great 

 Britain alone during the past year. I have 

 not the record at hand, but there were at 

 least some half-dozen of them, and they 



