, 1875-09-26

quarter century ago, but is still by her Comuaia-
zion on Unity That OF the Methodist Church
expired yesrs ago. Let it bo revived, md the
| time may speedily come when there can ba a
| bodies.
| ~ God bring the golden er, n
| When Christians all are one.
! In your editorial you write of the s'dcgu,asic
s'teins thin" They both believe in the very
same creed. have the sa:ne Articles OF religion,
The same services OF the Sacramenta. and the
same formula for ordinations. dsdicatons, aud
| CONSIDERATIONS Waile tho Meihodi5se hare no
Liturgy, ret no one csn boar their rraEers, but
he nil find that the thought Of onr Liturgy and
many of it's words arc il frae use among them.
Bat the Methodists are now using Lac Lords
Prayer in concert, and respond in the PEa!ne.
But the non-uae Of cur forms Of prayer would
not be in the way Of Organic union. The only
barrier is in tue batiof OF Episropalians in Al
historic church and it's ministry. This needs be-
no barrier. Il there is q hearty desire. aud q
determination to effect 1t, hun.hlc, Gnd holy, and
wise men will find out the method Of securing
it, as the representatives 1t Bonn have foand
out q method for sccoudipg Crock, Eom1o, and
Anglican Christians
II any union there must ba no compromise,
no yielding Of what either calls principle. It iB
not necessary. The forms of PRAYER can be ra-
tainod for the one, and love-ieasta and ciaas-
meetings for the ether. Union nuss end can bo
secured without abandoning any cherished senti-
ment or preacher.
Your article is well considered. a.d ahows
most thorough acquaintance with tho points Of
difference. You commit one error. Tha srm-
pathy is not roaiy between sas Low Church
and tho Aethodiats, but between tho High
Church, and even tho Ritunlists. The Low
Church are generally Calylnlstic. The High
Church, ike the Methodists, sra Armenian in
doctrine. The Ritaalsts are the real Motao-
dista Of thu Episcopal Church, and the Low
Church the Presbyteriars. Tyer1nnn's great
work on the early Methodists shows thas tho
Htnalista IN ENGLAND a2e doing the work Of tho
early Methodlsts' :, and he writes that
il the Epiacopalara do not know the
worth Of tho Risualls:s or appreciate
their work the Aothod1sts 10, and rhs. incre will
be an eventual union between them. 0ae OF
the Episcopal writer's terms the Methodist.
preaching inars.'
The severance Of tho Hethodists from the
Church was an unnatufA thing, nevsz contenl-
plated by the founder Of their brotherhood
John and Charles Wesley lived and died il the
bosom Of tho Church. They uero mon of puro
baptismaI grace. and studious to promote con-
sistens living among ohristian people,
These TWO bodies again united, bu. very little
time would elapse before the whole Protestant
world would be one on the Apostles Greed and
On historic ministry and Church This visible
unity hero and in England would lead not only
to inter-communion with the Greek ard Old
Catholic bod1es but would compel vigorous and
thorough reformation in the Roman Catholic
Church ITSELF Nothing is so much in the way
Of the renovation Of the Roman body "A tile
divisions among Protestants.
God speed the dag when there shall be 10 this |
glorious land Of ours but some Lord, one faith,
and one BAPTISM" Such unlon,wonld restore to
the world the power to soften it's hardness. It |
would take away contempt for religion, and the |
doubt, uncertainty, procrastination. and indiner-
ence OF the world aud hasten its conversion to |
God and 1ue holiness. Will it be said that it |