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70 Present Prospects of Re-union.<br />

We have tliousands of countrymen and country<br />

women in business, as governesses, domestic<br />

servants, connected with seaports,<br />

for whom no<br />

provision whatever is made or can be made.<br />

The consequence is, that not being allowed<br />

communion in the Russo-Greek Church without<br />

a renunciation of their own, they relapse into<br />

practical heathenism- The same too of not a<br />

few localities of the Roman Obedience.<br />

6. And this .too a practical one, the solution<br />

of the vexed question of an increased Episcopate<br />

both at home and abroad. Re-union with<br />

Rome on Gallican principles would give us all<br />

the new Bishops and Sees for our joint use<br />

lately created by the Pope in this country;<br />

providentially, too, they have been formed with<br />

titles which do not clash with our present<br />

ones.<br />

I think it was the present Chancellor of the<br />

Exchequer wrho,<br />

in his speech against the<br />

present Premier s Ecclesiastical Titles Bill,<br />

known as &quot;the<br />

during the panic generally<br />

to the effect that the<br />

Papal Aggression,&quot; spoke<br />

return of the Roman Catholics from the system<br />

of Vicars Apostolic to Diocesan Bishops was a<br />

happy one : it would make their organization<br />

more complete in itself, less dependent on<br />

Rome, and more fitted in times to come to take<br />

an independent line on those principles com<br />

monly called Gallican. As Vicars Apostolicthey<br />

were merely creatures of the Roman,

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