Modern Churchmen and Christian Union The Presidential address of the
Dean of St. Paul's to the Modern Churchmen's Union at Cambridge on Monday was charged, as might be expected, with broad sympathies and mature wisdom. Whether the Dean's hope that the Union may come to embrace both Anglo-Catholics and Evangelicals is realisable may be qUestioned, for there is a dogmatism in the one case in regard to Church order and in the other in regard to beliefs essential to salvation not easily reconcilable with the freedom from preconceptions demanded by Modern Churchmen in their search for larger truth and their restatement of traditional doctrines. But there can be union within the Church, if not union within the Union, • and the Dean's warning of the danger-of the divisionS of Christians in the face of a materialistic world was as timely as br. Creed's, at a later session, of the illegitim: Or. of claim- ing for a national Church, uSeful as a national Church is for working purposes, the prerogatives of the Church Catholic, Between Protestantism and 'tome there is Still a great gulf fixed. But within Protestantism a Wholesome diversity May be perfectly compatible with a fundamental spiritual unity.
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