We believe that this is felt instinctively by the vast
majority of Anglican laymen throughout the world, and also by the greater number of the Bishops and scholarly priests and ministers of the Church. No threats of schism mist prevent the Anglican Church from insisting that it will not have the gates of Chris- tian mercy slammed in the faces of any body of English-speaking men and women, great or small. The higher the spiritual claims of the Church of England—we ourselves hold they can hardly be put too high—the more essential it is that the policy of comprehension shall prevail over the policy of exclusion. Every bureaucrat wishes to regiment, to exclude and to bind burdens too heavy to be borne upon the men whom he marshals, and we must never forget that all organized Churches tend towards an intensive -type of spiritual bureaucracy.
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