Untitled - Rore Sanctifica

INTRODUCTION.
XVll
of the community, which carefully express its
deliberate judgment. It can easily be demon
strated, therefore, that they are substantially
the same unchangeable principles which ener
gize in the Oriental Churches, and are ad
mitted and acted upon as true in the rest of
Western Christendom ; so that a basis exists
upon which a superstructure may be safely
erected in the future.
The present volume of Essays is put forth
with the intention of considering certain details
bearing on the Re-union question, from indi
vidual and independent points
of view. Most
of them have reference to the religious isolation
of the Church of England. Each of the twelve
writers is responsible alone for what he himself
has written, and is in no degree answerable for
more. The Editor is only responsible
for his own
Essay and for this Introduction, both of which
he writes in his
private capacity
as a clergyman
of the Church of England, and not as the
Secretary of the Association for the Promotion
t/
of the Unity of Christendom. Furthermore,
no member of that Association is
responsible,*
directly or indirectly, for either or any of the
Essays, nor for the terms of this Introduction ;
:
" In joining the Association, no one is understood as
thereby expressing an opinion on any matter \vhich may
be deemed a point of controversy, or on any religious
question, except that the object of the Association is de
sirable."