The consummation of the vision of the faith:
This unity is definitely foretold here, even as it was the subject of our Lord's prayer the He was crucified. How attain to it? Some will think that we are retarding it by establishing: the order of Bishops not recognize! by many of our brethren in China. Not so: we are solemnly und deliberately giving to China an. episcopate, indigenous to the land not sending Chinese Bishops-ele far away to Europe to get their commissions, but consecrating thera here by those who, though still mostly foreigners, are Bishops of the Chung Hua Cheng Kung Hu placing them here as St, "Pat placed Timothy in the same Church of Ephesus, to teach (1 Tim. 1.3); to rebuke, if necessary, and exhort (1 Tim, 6,120) the presbyters; lay on hands in ordination, but not hastily (1 Tim. 5, 22), and generally to guard the heritage of the Church (1 Tim, 6, 20). The Church in "progress towards unity Will need this office of the episcopate, and we do well to confer it on "godly and well earned men" chosen by the various Dioceses from among their brethren.
The service to-day marks for China another step towards Church Unity. In Lausanne, Switzerland, fa great conference has lately done Us a great set setting out plainly the state which Christendom has now reached in its efforts after plainly ficulties still in the fested very
way. A "recent gathering.at St. Mary's in this neighbourhood has done a good service in uniting many Christians hitherto separated from one another and, alas, still from ts. We to-day are here to help Christ's Church in this land element of perfection which is essential. The Bishop has always been regarded as a contre of unity: the Episcopate is, we may say, the cement in the building of the Church fabric. 7
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