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inquiry, has been invoked, as never before, 

 in our own. I may not venture here to 

 recite, even in the most superficial way, the 

 story of its achievements, but I venture to 

 think that the longer and more carefully 

 they are studied in connection with the 

 subject of Christian unity, the more abun- 

 dantly will they vindicate the positions 

 assumed in what are known among us as 

 the Chicago-Lambeth Articles. 



What, now, were these positions ? Let 

 me venture, at the risk of repeating what 

 may be abundantly familiar to most of you, 

 to recite not only the terms of the " Quad- 

 rilateral " itself (as for convenience it has 

 been called), but those others by which it 

 was introduced. It was in the General 

 Convention of the Protestant Episcopal 

 Church, in the year 1886, that the House of 

 Bishops united in these words : 



"In pursuance of the action taken in 

 1853 for the healing of the divisions of 

 Christians in our own land, and in 1880 

 for the protection and encouragement of those 

 who had withdrawn from the Roman obedi- 

 ence, we here assembled in Council, assembled 

 as Bishops of the Church of God, do hereby 

 solemnly declare to all whom it may concern, 



