minded men, and the larger fruitage which would be gathered from the harvest fields of the world would more largely commend our orders to the consideration and esteem of those who will increasingly turn to those things which have manifested their worth and power in the practical and vital experience of the Church.

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CHAPTER XXXII

ANCIENT LANDMARKS

Y some it will be charged that in what is being contended for we are removing ancient landmarks. There are Biblical injunctions against doing this. This is unquestionably true. These injunctions, however, were pronounced against those who sought, by removing ancient landmarks, to delimit the possessions, and infringe upon the inheritance rights of other tribes in the Covenant Kingdom We would disclaim any intention of doing this with the landmarks of either truth or Church polity.

The Church may well pause to ask if the landmarks hitherto set by her do mark aright the scope of the spiritual inheritance of the chil

dren of the Christian covenant promise. Christ found them set to bounds that had been made too narrow, and removed them to mark the bounds of a Church more comprehensive. And in the hole from which He had removed the landmark of tradition, they set up a cross, "and there they crucified Him." It is well, also, to bear in mind that the men who doomed Him to death were led by the High Priest of ecclesiastical "orthodoxy."

PART III

CONFERENCE-CO-OPERATION-UNITY

"Oh, like to the greatness of God is the greatness within

The range of the marshes, the liberal marshes of Glynn.'

"Ye marshes, how candid and simple and nothing-withholding and free

Ye publish yourselves to the sky and offer yourselves to the sea!"

"And the sea lends large, as the marsh: lo, out of his plenty the sea

Pours fast:"

"Till his waters have flooded the uttermost creeks and the low-lying lanes,

And the marsh is meshed with a million veins, The creeks overflow: a thousand rivulets_run 'Twixt the roots of the sod; the blades of the marsh-grass stir;"

"And the sea and the marsh are one."

SIDNEY LANIER.