THE CHICAGO-LAMBETH ARTICLES 1G3 



of men, and money, and resources of every 

 sort, there still remain other and graver 

 considerations concerning which I thank 

 God there is now a far larger concurrence. 

 The favorite image which likened the 

 various sects and fellowships into which 

 Christendom is divided to so many regi- 

 ments or battalions in a great army, must 

 needs face and explain, if it can, the wide- 

 spread hostility of those battalions to each 

 other. The fact, of which any one familiar 

 with the history of smaller or larger com- 

 munities may easily assure himself if he 

 chooses, that quite as often as otherwise 

 the growth of any given communion is 

 simply at the expense of some other close 

 beside it ; — the further influence of a con- 

 dition of things which issues too often in 

 creating in the minds of Christian people 

 an attitude of which a critical and some- 

 what thrifty balancing of the claims of 

 rival fellowships is often a predominant 

 characteristic, — the wretched heartburn- 

 ings, rivalries, misrepresentations, and 

 animosities which are often the most 

 conspicuous fruits of our divided Chris- 

 tendom, — these are facts which we can- 

 not longer deny and winch we attempt in 



