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tual, but without sympathy with any outside 

 his evangelical communion. Calvin was 

 logician, scholar, hero ; but he could banish 

 Castalio or burn Servetus, like the malleus 

 hereticorum of past time, and rule Geneva 

 as if it were a cloister of Benedict. His 

 spirit passed into his disciples ; it created 

 Puritans, brave, conscientious, pure, yet 

 men who could, like Colonel Gardiner, 

 look at an Arminian as Anti-Christ, and 

 think a surplice a rag of unrighteousness." 

 Undoubtedly, since those days the animosi- 

 ties of differing Christians have greatly 

 softened, but it would be a " fond conceit " 

 to imagine that they had ceased to exist. 

 And, even if they had, there would still 

 remain those other grounds of difference 

 which represent profound conscientious 

 convictions, — convictions which if they 

 ever yield, must yield, not to the touch of 

 sentiment, but to a vision, at once clearer 

 and larger, of what is essential truth. It 

 is because, whatever may be the discourage- 

 ments of the hour, I believe in the growth 

 of such a vision and of the influence and 

 the temper that best serve to prepare the 

 way for it, that, for one, I am persuaded 

 that what is known as the Lambeth Dec- 

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