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62 Present Prospects of Re-union.
of two galleys, which should arrive first in the
waters of the Bosphorus ! Since that abortive
attempt, the aim of Rome seems to have been
absorption of the Eastern Church into her own
Communion, by a gradual system of Proselytism
; by the formation of a TJniat Church, and
the concession to its members of the use of
their own Liturgies, and customs on a bare
acknowledgment of the Papal claim, and Supre
macy.
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The only move towards the Eastern on the
part of the English Church was the scheme
propounded by the non-juring bishops to the
Russo-Greek Church, strangled at its birth by
the death of the Czar Peter. Archdeacon Basire,
in his travels in the East, being a man of
Catholic mind, fraternized with the Greek
Church, and was duly appreciated by her
came of it towards Re-union,
Bishops,but nothing
Deacon Palmer, in our own day, in his attempt
in the same direction could get no further than
to embroil the Russian with the Constantino-
politan Church on the question of rebaptization
of Westerns ; their practices being diverse. The
admission to Communion of an English priest in
the Church of Servia, held up to ridicule because
feared bv some Roman Catholics, and treated
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rather too curtly (not to say snubbed) by
Prince Orloff at a late meeting in London to
consider the question of Re-union with the