The Upper House also carried a resolution for negotiating such
an intercommunion with the Eastern Church " as shall enable the laity and clergy of either to join in the sacrament and offices of
the other, without forfeiting the communion of their own Church." Pray, has the Dean of Canterbury forfeited the communion of his own Church by joining in the offices of a Dissenting service the rather day at Cheshunt College? The report of the Committee on which this resolution was founded limited the right of communion to such Churches only as are " one in the possession of a true .episcopate, one in their sacraments, and one in their creed," a defi- nition which does not seem to us to include any other Church at all. The Lutherans and English Dissenters have no episcopate ; the Russian Church does not admit the procession of the Holy Ghost 4g from the Father and the Son;" and the Roman Church diverges from ours on both creed and sacraments. What nonsense it all is. Why cannot men go and worship quietly with fellow Christians, however wide asunder, and not fancy that spiritual error is caught, like the small-pox, from physical contact ?
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