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and especially to our fellow Christians of tit e 

 different communions in this land, who, in 

 their several spheres, have contended for the 

 religion of Christ: 



" (1) Our earnest desire that the Saviour's 

 Prayer ' that we cell may he One ' may, in its 

 deepest aud truest sense, be speedily fulfilled." 



This plainly enough admits that what- 

 ever inner and spiritual unity among differ- 

 ing Christians might exist, that unity for 

 which Christ prayed — unity " in its deep- 

 est and truest sense " — did not exist. 



"(2) TJiat we believe that cell who have 

 been duly baptised ivith Wetter in the name 

 of the Father, and of the Son, and of the 

 Holy Ghost, are members of the Holy Catholic 

 Church." 



This no less clearly affirmed or implied 

 that a sole and supreme claim to member- 

 ship in the Holy Catholic Chinch could not 

 be made by any one branch of that church, 

 to the exclusion of any baptized person, 

 even though not of its own fellowship. 



" (3) That in things of hitman choice, 

 relating to modes of worship), and discipline, 

 or to traditional customs, this Church is 

 ready, in the spirit of love and hitmility, to 

 forego all preferences of their own" 



