marks an epoch in the history of political theories. Hitherto Prussia, like England, had held and practiced the doctrine, once a citizen always a citizen. Now she was called on to admit the right of expatriation, the renunciation of old allegiance, and the acquisition of a new and exclusive citizenship. Such a course was also contrary to the policy of the War Department, as it gave ample opportunity for young men capable of military duty to emigrate. But the young men emigrated whether or no, and for some years the practice of seizing those who ventured to return, and forcing them into the ranks, had proved burdensome and exasperating. Bismarck was therefore disposed to listen to the suggestions of a larger policy. He desired to be on good terms with the United States, and as nearly every family in Germany had members in America he was anxious that those who remained might not be disaffected by the harsh treatment of their relatives, who might return from time to time to renew the ties of affection which bound them to parents and brethren. So he yielded on condition that citizenship in the United States should be bona fide, and be proved to be so by residence there and continuous domicile elsewhere than under the German flag. The principle of expatriation once established, England renounced her claim to indefeasible allegiance, and the new principle is now prevalent throughout civilized lands. In the treaty concerning the Northwestern boundary, negotiated by Polk, there was an ambiguity concerning a portion of the line. This enabled interested persons to reopen the question. After some negotiations it was agreed that this should be one of the questions submitted to arbitration. But the terms accepted were unfavorable to the United States, consenting, as they did, that if there was uncertainty as to the true line, the arbiter himself might establish a boundary of compromise. Bancroft took the initiative against this course. The Department of State at length determined that the method of arbitration should be for each side to formulate its claim, that these should be submitted to the arbiter for a decision as to which was right, and that the Emperor of Germany should be the referee. To Bancroft alone was left the whole matter of the preparation of the American argument. The first presentation of the case and the reply to the British were every word his own, and the completeness of the plea was due to his early knowledge of the whole affair As is well known, the decision of the Emperor of Germany was unreservedly in our favor. The public life thus delineated in outline would in itself have been a career for most men. Its successful achievements would entitle any American to the admiration and respect of his countrymen, securing for him a place in the country's history. But in the case of Bancroft it was all incidental and disciplinary rather than essential. His true renown is not that of a maker, but of a writer of history. The statesman and diplomatist in him were ever ancillary to the historian. In September, 1823, appeared from the University Press of Cambridge a small volume of his poems, written partly in Europe, partly after his return. It was not remarkable except for its biographical suggestions, showing the ardor of both his ambition and his patriotism. In later years the author obtained and destroyed many copies of the edition, so that the little volume is now very rare. One stanza is the key to Bancroft's whole life: The weary pilgrim to his home returns; His motive power was an abiding faith in the democracy of the United States as the destined carrier of a great focal civilization following those of the Orient, of Greece, of Rome, and of Europe. Without this key no one can understand either his personal character or his work, which is as much the expression of a prophecy as the record of a fulfillment. The earlier articles that Bancroft wrote for the reviews were also literary-on subjects connected with the classics of Greece and Rome or of Germany. But in January, 1831, he published in the "North American Review" a discussion of the Bank of the United States, and in 1835 an essay on the "Documentary History of the Revolution." The first volume of his "History of the United States" had appeared the previous year. These two facts show how earlier training and purpose had culminated in work. Through the study of philosophy he was led to the belief that there was a collective human will, in which personal doubt, passion, and sentiment had been canceled. The unfolding of this must give the only scientific basis for the study of morals. But he believed also, as he repeatedly said to the writer, that if there be the same conservation of energy in the moral as in the physical world, there must also be a universal and eternal power, that this eternal reason shorn of human imperfections is the infinite, perfect, enduring Logos. The incarnation was the philosophical justification of Christianity, because in it the finite knows the infinite. Bancroft in philosophy was akin to Kant and believed that the Königsberg philosopher had met the skeptics on their own ground and proved the existence of a priori truth and of a priori synthetic judgments. History, therefore, was to him the most important discipline of philosophy. He viewed it, long before the men who now claim the merit of the discovery, as a unit; he believed its forces to be constant, and looked on their manifestation as parts of an organic whole. The background is the history of the race, but against it the individual moves and acts with perfect completeness and liberty. He believed also in the great importance of original authorities. In this he was the pupil of Heeren. He has been criticised for the strong emphasis laid on documentary material, but only by sciolists unfamiliar with the fundamental rules of his critical apparatus. These were twocarefully distinguish between original authority and historical memorials or aids; represent every man from his own standpoint, judge him from your own. Hence the test of the historian is threefold-when, where, by whom. An original authority concerning a fact either acted in it or saw it or heard from another who performed or beheld. An historical aid or memorial is, for instance, a decision of the Supreme Court concerning the interpretation of the Constitution. Unlike later historians, however, he did not believe in making an evolutionist's allowance for relative values in the testimony of men of different ages. The address entitled "The Necessity, Reality, and Promise of the Progress of Mankind," which he delivered in 1854 on the semi-centennial anniversary of the New York Historical Society, is the most perfect statement of his historical creed, and he held it to the close of his life. Therein he declares that "every member of the race is in will, affection, and intellect consubstantial with every other"; that "truth knows nothing of the succession of ages, ... neither does morality need to perfect itself, it is what it always has been and always will be. . The progress of man consists in this, that he himself arrives at the perception of truth.... The many are wiser than the few; the multitude than the philosopher; the race than the individual; and each successive generation than its predecessor.... Since the Mediator is from the beginning, he exists for all intelligent creatures not less than for all time.... Truth as discerned by the mind of man is constantly recovering its primal luster and is steadily making its way toward general acceptance.... The collective man of the future will see further and will see more clearly than the collective man of today, and he will share his superior power of vision and his attainments with every one of his time. The organization of society must more and more conform to the principle of freedom. This will be the last triumph, partly because the science of government enters into the sphere of personal interests and meets resistance from private selfishness; and partly because society, before it can be constituted aright, must turn its eye upon itself, observe the laws of its own existence, and arrive at the consciousness of its capacities and relations.... The permanent establishment [of republican Government] presupposes meliorating experience and appropriate culture; but the circumstances under which it becomes possible prevail more and more.... Remember that the principles of justice and sound philosophy are but the inspirations of common sense and belong of right to all mankind. Carry them forth, therefore, to the whole people, for so only can society build itself up on the imperishable groundwork of universal freedom." Of course, it is a debatable question how far Bancroft carried out this admirable philosophy of history in practice. In the matter of style he gave himself infinite pains. His vast reading was largely with a view to acquiring perfection of form, and it was no uncommon thing for him to write and rewrite an important passage over and over again, as often frequently as eight times. A well-known paragraph on the Mississippi river in the eighth chapter of the ninth volume is an example. In fact, the entire book was written again and again, partly with reference to the deliberate and calm consideration of facts and judgments, but with a view also to beauty of form; and yet he often errs on the side of over-ornament and Ciceronian balance, leaving too frequently the impression of labored floridness rather than of sparkling brilliance. He was true from first to last in his devotion to original authorities. His residence in England as minister was devoted throughout to the collection of hitherto unused materials from the archives of the historic families and of the English and French foreign offices. In the end his collection of manuscript sources became enormous. The first volumes of the history were received with enthusiasm, pirated in England, and translated into Danish, Italian, German, and French, both with and without the author's permission. He was therefore admitted in England to the highest literary and social circles and given every possible opportunity for access to private and public papers. It was no wonder that he was tempted to put an exaggerated value on what he thus obtained. The real value was very high. Most of the fourth and fifth volumes were written in London, and they set forth as never before the elemental importance of the movements of thought in Europe and the colonies that produced the American Revolution. It is an old story now, but he was the first to set forth the representative character of our career in the history of epochal social movements. Undue importance is sometimes given to tendencies which though apparent are not strong, to diplomatic rumors, to the hasty conclusions of contemporary writers. From In certain instances also Bancroft has treated his documents as if they were accessible to all the world for comparison with his text. long and prosy documents he has compiled, perhaps on the Thucydidean model, spirited and admirable résumés, which are given as if thus actuésumés. ally written. Sometimes also the matter between quotation marks is so selected and rearranged as to be rather his own than that of the first writer. Misapprehension of a minor kind has several times arisen on both these grounds; but it has never been shown that he falsified the ideal truth of history, and twice he has printed volumes of the correspondence with which he worked. Two were printed separately about 1875, and the second volume of his "History of the Constitution" is largely made up of similar material. In both instances the text is an exact reproduction of the copies made for him by careful copyists in the archives or of the documents in his possession. It is also true that material in the field of American history was accumulated during Bancroft's lifetime which he did not use; but he nowhere claimed finality for his work, and the laborious years of his old age were entirely oссиpied in weaving into his narrative what he had, and no one else had, that he might not die before it was given to the world. It is not conceivable that he could have done more than he did in the time he had. With another existence he might also have appropriated the labors of others, minute, boundless, and untiring as they are; but his own were no less so. But no one can deny that Bancroft successfully fulfilled the lofty and philosophical conception of his task a task comparable to any undertaken by the greatest historians, and carried out with a splendor of equipment in material, in time, and in in judicial ability which has made the nation a sharer of his world-wide renown. The generalization of the philosopher, the insight of the strategist, the acuteness of the statesman, all appear in his pages. No less amazing is the perennial enthusiasm that plays over the whole narrative, and is as youthful at the close as in the first volume. Without it no one could fitly portray the origins of America, nor the heroic and epic element in her history, and it has appeared on no other page. His style is both graphic and salient, his maxims sound, and his spirit elevated. Finally, he has the truest mark of greatness-he is a man of his own time, neither a dreamer of Utopias nor a laudator temporis acti. Full of appreciation for the past and with infinite faith in the future, he comprehends and uses the value of the present age for the instruction and consolation of the ignorant and faltering and for the strengthening of the wise. He has perfect confidence in the common sense of our own day. When Bancroft left Berlin, where his house had been a meeting place for the learned of the whole empire, the Royal Academy gave him a farewell dinner and the universities of Berlin, Munich, and Heidelberg united in a farewell greeting. "Your name," they said, "is the intellectual possession of us all. You have contributed to the more complete understanding of the problems set for a free people in that, as one of the foremost historians, you portrayed those immortal deeds which led to the rise of a great free state beyond the sea. You combined the spirit of true scientific procedure with the insight of a statesman." In person Bancroft was slight and graceful, but dignified and stately. From earliest life he had enjoyed the best society of all countries, the aristocracy of birth and letters in America, England, Germany, and France. He had neither the mask of the diplomat nor the instinctive suavity of the politician nor the grand air of the official. His spirit was mirrored in a manner grave, simple, and sometimes formal. With the certainty of experience was sometimes mingled a timidity that was almost feminine. He accumulated by thrift and sobriety a considerable fortune. His hand was ever open in unceasing generosity to the poor, and in hospitality of a simple but elegant kind to his friends. Rising early, often at five, he studied until after two, taking breakfast and luncheon from a tray on his worktable. The afternoon was devoted to outdoor life, two hours at least in all weathers, and to social duties. Dinner was a function, and the evening was sacred to sociability. His later years were spent at his home in Washington during the winter, and at his cottage near Newport in the midst of his great and famous rose-garden during the summer. He died in Washington on the evening of Saturday, Jan. 17, 1891. His health had been perfect until the preceding Thursday, although for some months his mind had been failing. At the great age of ninety he had as many friends as most men at fifty; to the end he enjoyed the distinction of being first everywhere, in all society. The Senate made him free of its floor, for him the Century Association created the dignity of honorary member. Monarchs sent wreaths for his burial. He made his own people conscious of their high mission, and his name should long survive. In his last years he revised his "History of the United States," and re-issued it in six volumes. BAPTISTS. Statistics of the Regular Baptists. The American Baptist Year-Book for 1890 gives the following statistics of the regular Baptist churches in the United States and the world: In the United States: Number of associations, 1,353; of ordained ministers, 21,175; of churches, 33,588; of members, 3,070,047; number of baptisms during the year, 144,575; number of Sunday schools, 17,696, including 132,186 officers and teachers and 1,211,696 pupils; value of church property, $58,162,367. Amount of contributions reported: For salaries and expenditure, $6,900,266: for missions, $1,092,571; for education, $228,470; miscellaneous contributions, $1,977,952; total, 10,199,259. In all North America, 34,761 churches, 21,948 ministers, 3,202,292 members, and 148,727 baptisms during the year; in South America (Brazil), 6 churches, 8 ministers, 229 members, and 37 baptisms; in Europe, 3,940 churches, 2,779 ministers, 404,782 members, and 4,084 baptisms; in Asia, 743 churches, 433 ministers, 75,844 members, and 5,313 baptisms; in Africa, 44 churches, 66 ministers, 3.039 members, and 109 baptisms; in Australasia, 186 churches, 112 ministers, and 15,196 members. Total, 39,690 churches, 25,346 ministers, 3,701,382 members, and (so far as reported) 158,270 baptisms. I. Regular Baptists in the United States. - American Baptist Publication Society. The sixty-sixth annual meeting of the "American Baptist Publication Society" was held in Chicago, III., May 21 and 22. The Rev. Thomas Armitage, D. D., presided. The total receipts of the society for the year had been $651,005, or $24,145.27 more than the receipts of the previous year. Of this sum, $503,650 had been in the book department, $125,115 in the missionary department, and $22,240 in the Bible department. Ninety-one new publications had been issued, and upward of 33,000,000 copies of books, tracts, pamphlets, and periodicals had been printed. One hundred and thirty-two colporteurs or missionaries had been employed; 820 grants, of 43,580 copies of the Scriptures or of parts, had been made, in twelve languages; 719 persons baptized, 53 churches constituted, 545 Sunday schools organized, and 252 aided with gifts, 471 pastors and ministerial students aided with grants for their libraries, and 47,248 families visited. American Baptist Home Mission SocietyThe fifty-eighth annual meeting of the American Baptist Home Mission Society was held in Chicago, Ill., May 26 and 27. The Hon. C. W. Kingsley presided. The society had received during the year from all sources $449,445, of which $15,139 had been contributed through the women's societies. Eight hundred and thirtythree missionary laborers had been employed in 47 States and Territories, Ontario, British Columbia, Manitoba, Alaska, and 6 States in Mexicoviz., 400 among Americans, 190 among foreign populations, and 243 among the colored people, Indians, and Mexicans. They represented 13 nationalities or peoples. They had supplied 1,659 churches and out-stations, had 844 Sunday schools under their care, and returned 7,371 members received into the mission churches. Sixtythree new mission stations had been taken up, of which 19 were among foreign populations and Mexicans. The number of Baptist churchmembers among foreign populations was given as follows: Germans, 14,500; Swedes, 15,500; Danes and Norwegians, 4,500; and French, 500. The increase was estimated at about 2,000 members a year. The society co-operates with the colored Baptist conventions of most of the Southern States in the support of general State missionaries and of missionary pastors. Seventeen missionaries-7 white and 10 Indian-were employed among the Indians in the Indian Territory, and a missionary to the uncivilized Indians was supported by the Territorial Convention. Several baptisms of Chinese converts were reported in California and Oregon. Twenty-three missionaries and teachers, all but 3 of whom were native Mexicans, were employed in Mexico. They returned 14 churches, 379 members, and 76 baptisms. There were several stations at which churches had not been organized, and stated services at a number of towns. Most of the churches were organized into an association. In its church edifice department the society had aided 87 churches by gifts and loans. This department had a loan fund of $119,720, to which the receipts for the year had been $6,658; and had received for its benevolent fund $34,662. The schools sustained by the society consist of 20 colleges, seminaries, and day schools for colored people, with 166 teachers, 64 of them colored, and 2,379 pupils: 4 schools for Indians, with 18 teachers and 334 pupils 6 Chinese mission schools; and 2 schools in Mexico, with 2 teachers and 110 pupils; in all, 32 schools, with (exclusive of the Chinese mission schools), 186 teachers and 2,823 pupils. The meeting approved and adopted the resolutions of the Southern Baptist Convention recommending the appointment of a commission of scholars of different denominations to consider and seek to determine what is the teaching of the Bible on leading points of difference of doctrine and polity between the denominations; approved the objects of the National League for the Protection of American Institutions, which is endeavoring to secure the insertion of an amendment to the Constitution of the United States forbidding the appropriation of money by any State to the support or aid of any institution, society, or undertaking which is wholly or in part under sectarian or ecclesiastical control; and adopted a petition to Congress forbidding Sunday work in the mail and military service of the nation and in interstate commerce. American Baptist Education Society. - The American Baptist Education Society was formed in 1888 for the promotion of Christian education under Baptist auspices in North America. The second annual meeting was held in Chicago, May 27. The Hon. G. A. Pillsbury, of Minneapolis, Minn., presided. The ordinary receipts of the treasurer for the year had been $6,583, applicable to expenses. Special appropriations had been definitely made to several institutions of $51,400, conditioned on the raising of certain supplementary amounts by the friends of those institutions, rising in the aggregate to $300,000; adding the similar appropriations for the preceding year, the amounts were swelled, for the two years, to $83,400 and $520,000. Further than these, $112,390 had been raised toward a fund of one million dollars-for which Mr. John D. Rockefeller had offered $600,000 on condition of the churches contributing $400,000-for the establishment of the University of Chicago. A charter had been obtained for the society from the Legislature of the State of New York. It was intended to pursue the policy of discouraging the undue multiplication of institutions attempting collegiate instruction, and in general to foster but one college in a State. In the New England States the policy of the Executive Board was to strengthen, and if possible to multiply, the secondary schools and academies. American Baptist Missionary Union. The seventy-sixth annual meeting of the American Baptist Missionary Union was held in Chicago, III., May 23. The Rev. G. W. Northrup, D. D., presided. The treasurer reported that the year's receipts for current expenses had been $440,788, while the whole amount of the appropriations had been $440,556. Thirty-three new missionaries had been put into the field, and 35 were about to go out. Three new foreign stations had been established. The missionaries reported 11,061 baptisms, of which 5,539 were in the heathen and 5,522 in the European missions. The reports of the work in the field showed that there were in the missions to the heathen-in Burmah and the neighboring states, India, China, Japan, and the Congo-64 stations, 1,382 out-stations, and 331 missionaries (195 of whom were women), with 68,270 members; in the European missions, 917 preachers, 707 churches, and 70,003 members; in all the missions, 331 missionaries (including laymen), 1,736 preachers, 1,361 churches, and 138,293 members. An increase was shown from the previous year of 52 missionaries, 45 churches, and 3,980 members. There were in Burmah 372 self-supporting independent churches and 262 self-supporting schools in the villages, etc., taught by natives. A committee was appointed to consider the subject of arranging with the English and other Baptist foreign missionary societies for a centennial celebration in 1892 or 1893 of the beginning of the mission of William Carey, which was also the beginning of Baptist missionary enterprise. Woman's Missionary Societies. The annual meeting of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, Boston, was held in Portland, Me., April 15. Its receipts for the year were returned at $99,007 and its expenditures at $99,170. Eight thousand dollars of the surplus had been invested. The society employed 48 missionaries and 62 Bible women in the foreign field, and had 8 missionaries under appointment. The receipts of the Woman's Baptist Missionary Society of the West were returned at its annual meeting in April as having been $34,674 and its expenditures in the foreign department as $34,588. The addition of the home expenditures caused a deficit in the treasury of $5,406. Special mention was made in the report of the success of work against intemperance and advance of Bible study among the Paku Karens of Toungoo, Burmah; of evidences of progress at Henzada, Burmah; Norogong, Assam; Ongole, India; and in the Congo mission at Palabella, while additional force was needed at other stations in Burmah and China. The society employed in 1889 30 missionary workers in Burmah, India, China, Japan, and Africa, all of whom are included in the lists of the American Baptist Missionary Union. The Women's Baptist Home Mission Society, Chicago, received in the year 1888-'89, $39,774; employed 75 missionaries among foreign populations, Indians, Mormons, and negroes; sustained a Chinese school at San Francisco, Cal., and a training school at Chicago, and published a monthly periodical, "Tidings." ." It co-operates with the American Baptist Home Mission Society and Baptist conventions in frontier States. The Women's American Baptist Home Mission Society, Boston, received in the year 1888-'89, $28,346, and expended in salaries of missionaries and teachers and payments to beneficiaries $25,505. It employed 37 agents. American Baptist Historical Society. - The American Baptist Historical Society, Philadelphia, reported the amount of its building fund in May, 1889, as $2,360. It had also $1,500 of other invested funds. The library contained 7,468 volumes and a large number of manuscripts, some of them of very great value. Special attention was given to the collating of association and convention minutes, of which the society had now 218 bound volumes. Baptist Ministers' Aid Society. The Baptist Ministers' Aid Society of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Michigan, organized in 1885, maintains a home at Fenton, Mich., for aged, infirm, and destitute Baptist ministers and missionaries, and the wives, widows, and orphans of such residing in the States named in its title. Eleven persons had been received into the home in 1889, and $11,000 had been contributed to an endowment fund. The home consists of a fourstory building with twenty acres of land, valued at $50,000, to which a cottage has been added. Southern Baptist Convention. The churches represented in this body include 1,194,520 white members, with 15,894 churches and 8,548 ordained ministers, and returned 17,507 baptisms in 1889. There are besides within the same territory 1,129,547 colored Baptists having their own separate ecclesiastical organizations. The Southern Baptist Convention met in Fort Worth, Tex., May 9. Judge Jonathan Haralson, of Alabama, was chosen president. The receipts of the Home Mission Board had been $167,576, of which $68,298 had been collected from the States, $61,953 raised and expended by co-operative bodies on local fields, and $37,325 raised by co-operative societies for building. The board had employed 371 missionaries, who returned 1,182 churches and stations, 267 churches and 336 Sunday schools organized, and 4,477 baptisms as results of their work during the year. Of the missionaries, 270 were laboring among the native white people, 50 among the colored people, 30 with foreign populations, including Indians, and 21 in Cuba. The board had assisted also in the support of 45 colored missionaries. Five white ministers had been employed as theological instructors among these people in Georgia, Florida, Alabama, and Mississippi. The mission in Cuba, which is under the charge of the Home Board, returned 1,700 members, with an average attendance of about 700 pupils in the day schools and 2,000 in Sunday schools. Twenty young men were preparing for the ministry, and a school had been organized for their instruction. The woman's societies had contributed $10,015 to the funds of this board. The receipts of the Foreign Mission Board had been $109,174, of which the woman's missionary societies had contributed $21,223. The missions in China, Africa, Italy, Brazil, Mexico, and Japan-returned 37 main stations, 124 out-stations, 78 missionaries (45 of whom were women), 29 ordained native missionaries, 57 native helpers, 62 churches, 2,213 members, with 409 baptisms during the year, and 29 schools with 575 pupils. Forty new missionaries had been sent out during the past twenty months. The report of the Theological Seminary showed that it had $300,000 of endowment funds. The trustees of the institution asked for $100,000 additional for a building. A committee was appointed to confer with the Northern Baptists in reference to a celebration of the centennial of the establishment of Baptist foreign missions. A special committee was appointed to have the care of Sunday-school interests and supervise the publication of a lesson series. The following resolutions were adopted concerning the determination of fundamental points of belief: Whereas, The different denominations have lately been giving unusual attention to the subject of Christian union; and Whereas, It is conceded to be a great desideratum that Christians should agree in all important points of doctrine and polity; and Whereas, There is a standard recognized as authoritative by all Christians, viz., the Bible; therefore, Resolved, By this society, representing nearly 2,000,000 communicants, that we recognize the gravity of the problem of bringing different denominations to see alike on important subjects concerning which they now differ, and that we recognize in the teachings of Scripture the only basis on which such agreement is either possible or desirable; also Resolved, That we respectfully propose to the general body of our brethren of other denominations to select representative scholars, who shall consider and seek to determine just what is the teaching of the Bible on leading points of difference of doctrine and polity between the denominations, in the hope that they can at least help to a better understanding of the issues involved; and Resolved, That we heartily favor that the results of such proposed conference of representative scholars be widely published in all denominational papers, so that the Christian public can be thoroughly informed concerning these results, and that progress may be made toward true Christian union. Baptist Premillennial Conference. A conference for Bible study of Baptist ministers holding, besides the generally accepted evangelical doctrines, the doctrine of the premillennial advent of Christ, was held in Brooklyn, N. Y., Nov. 18 to 21. The Rev. A. J. Gordon, D. D., of Boston, presided. The discussions, including addresses, the reading of papers, and extemporaneous remarks, bore upon a variety of questions connected with this doctrine. The aim of one paper was to show that premillennialism had been the faith of Baptists from the beginning. It was said at the close of the meeting that two hundred pastors in different parts of the Union had expressed sympathy with the premillennial movement; that a permanent organization was to be effected, a treasurer appointed, and funds collected. Baptist Church Congress. The ninth annual meeting of the American Baptist Church Congress was held in New Haven, Conn., Nov. 11, 12, and 13. The Hon. Francis Wayland, of New Haven, presided. The programme of the papers and discussions was as follows: "Proposed Bases of Christian Union," Rev. Т. Т. |