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xxxiv Introductory Essay.
mature discussion of details, were misunder
stood. It could hardly be otherwise. This alters
nothing. Nor is it in the long run unhopeful,
if, at the first look we, who long for a healthful
Re -union, are treated by some with contempt,
by others as rebels. This, too, was to be ex
pected. But it is a great fact that, in the Greek
Church, the late Patriarch of Constantinople,
together with six members of the Synod,
"
the
Metropolitans of Lemnos, Cos, Cyzicus, two
Metropolitans from Thessaly, and one from II-
lyria,"* venerable and earnest men from Europe,
Asia, the Islands, should have received with
expressions of deep satisfaction the commenda
tory letters of the Archbishop of Canterbury
and others of our Bishops, and expressed them
selves
"grateful
for this token of brotherly
feeling, and preserved them in the Archives of
the Patriarchate as a memorial of the opening
of friendly relations between the two Churches."
When, besides, we find that the like preliminary
dispositions to, and desire for Re-union was
felt and expressed by the Patriarch of Antioch ;
that the Patriarch of Jerusalem (notwithstand
ing the ill-omened Anglo-German Episcopate
there, which reverses one important object for
which it was instituted, the cultivation of
friendly relations with the orthodox Greek
* Eev. G. Williams, fourth paper
Association, p. 5.
of Eastern Church