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242 Corporate Re-union.
those who argue in its behalf are disagreed as
to the basis of Re-union, and therefore are never
likely to arrive at any satisfactory conclusion,
and consequently that it is merely waste of
time to pursue an object which is evidently a
phantom, and on this very account utterly un
attainable.
The answer to this objection is very simple.
Until Re-union is finally accomplished, of course
there will be different opinions not only as to its
basis, but as to the mode of it.
attaining This
necessarily follows from the previous fact of
the existing divisions of faith and practice
among the different communions.
The Orthodox Church of the East (so she
styles herself) will never unite with the Angli
can Church, until the latter has abandoned the
Protestant errors contained in her Thirty-nine
Articles and accepted those
great Catholic truths,
which the Anglican Reformers of the sixteenth
century denied, and as a protest against which
they composed their Thirty-nine Articles. An
able Greek writer in the Union Chretienne, a
Greek periodical published at Paris, has
expressly stated this quite recently and argued
the point most : elaborately showing that there
must be an explicit declaration from the Angli
can bishops in favour of the seven sacraments,
of the Eucharistic sacrifice of the new law, of
the Real Presence, and transubstantiation of