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of a mutual co-operation, which is mutually 

 trustful, mutually respectful, and most of 

 all mutually loving. 



It is because the earliest days of Chris- 

 tian history are the days which teach us 

 this lesson most clearly that, more and 

 more, the better sentiment of our genera- 

 tion is turning back to study their story 

 and to seek to recover their spirit. 



V. Finally, I look with hopefulness to 

 the coming of a day which shall bring 

 with it a recovery of primitive unity and 

 the building of a Christian fellowship at 

 once Scriptural and comprehensive, upon 

 some such basis as the Chicago-Lambeth 

 Declaration, because of my profound faith 

 in the mission to the whole world of a 

 Christianity which is not Greek or Ro- 

 man, Oriental or Italian, but Anglo-Saxon. 

 I can readily anticipate at this point how 

 some one may say, " But is not such an 

 expectation an illustration of precisely the 

 blunder upon which you have just been so 

 freely commentating? You have told us 

 that one reason why we may not look for 

 the reunion of Christendom along the line 

 of the Roman Obedience is because it stands 

 for a type of Christianity which is not 



