The Church Congress met at Brighton oil Tuesday, and as
its but only a bridge by means of which we might make acquaintance with one another." But unfortunately that does not at all describe the effort made to agree on formulse .skilfully constructed to ignore the mutual differences of the members. If you go over a bridge to see your neighbours on the other'side of the street or the river, you want to see their different points of view, not to ignore them. The Bonn Conference was one long effort to get a form of words which all would accept, but which would conceal the interior divergencies of view. 'What is the object of that ? We suppose it is to measure the agreements,—which is good. But why not measure equally accu- rately the differences also ? It is the latter, not the former, which are usually the more. instructive.
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