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Dr. Henson went on to declare that the Anglican Bishops

could not ignore the two principles of the Reformation. " One -was the supremacy of Holy Scripture ; the other the validity of the witness of Christian History. If this principle were applied to the claim now hotly pressed by a great section of the Anglican Communion, there was no doubt as to the answer : Christ Himself did not older any specific organization of the Church. The verdict 'of history was equally decisive : the failure of the episcopacy was not any less certain than its success.' " History, he continued, was continually revising the definition of the Catholic Church. " It had disallowed the episcopalian theory ; no definition of the Church could leave out the non-episcopalism churches."