Dr. Hensley Henson, the Bishop of Durham, preaching in the
Temple Church last Sunday, dealt in plain language and in the broadest way with the question of reunion. In the course of his sermon he said :-
" The Bishops at Lambeth were under no delusion on ithe fourth proposition of the Lambeth Quadrilateral, which asserted, or seemed to assert, the necessity of the ' Historic Episcopate ' ; they knew that the whole future of their efforts to heal ' the unhappy divisions ' of English Christianity turned on how they stated the claim of episcopacy and how far they acknowledged the validity of Christian ministries which were not episcopal. If the Anglican Communion raised ' the Historic Episcopacy ' into an essential of Christianity, then we had better put a term to negotiations for reunion, which were foredoomed to failure."
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