The possible unity of churches is differently viewed. "It is strange that people do not see the futility of union on a governmental basis" ("Basis of True Christian Unity," Kettlewell). Over against this, A. J. Mason says: ("Principles of Ecclesiastical Unity," p. 90) "Certainly it is a vain thing to endeavour to reunite christendom upon the basis of a recognized anarchy." Historically, the Church is an organization. The ministry is an important part, owing its inception to Jesus Christ Himself." Dr. Mason's position simply is, You must come in to us, if there is to be church unity. He insists, as the Anglican catholics always do, on the sentence which nobody disputes, "No man can make himself a Christian minister." As we have already said, it is God alone who can make a minister, and each church recognizes its ministers according to its own best judgment. Mason says further: "The Apostolic ministry can only be derived from the transmission from those who, as Timothy and Titus, have thus been solemnly entrusted therewith " (p. 93). It would be very interesting to have Dr. Mason show the connection between his ordination and that of Timothy and Titus. He further says: "To enter into communion with the protestant churches would bar the way to any reunion with the as yet unreformed churches of christendom" (p. 102). Yet, Dr. Mason admits all the great schisms of antiquity except perhaps the Montanist, were organized by men in undoubted orders. He frankly says (p. 107), "Rome is the hole of the pit when spiritually we were digged." And again, "The English Church is the daughter of Rome. The primacy of Rome is divine in the larger sense in which history reveals the divine will” (p. 109). Reville ("Les Origines,” p. 151), "It is the lamentable prejudice of the unity of primitive Christianity which has induced the theologians to seek a uniformity in the external constitution of the first churches." 66 Episcopate, no more than any other ecclesiastical function, is not of apostolic origin. This has been proved a long time since, to every unbiased spirit" (p. 179). The ordinary creed professed when Protestants joined the Roman Catholic Church, and which is called the Profession of Converts, has these sentences: "I also profess that there are seven sacraments in stituted by Jesus Christ our Lord, and necessary for the salvation of mankind." "I do freely profess and hold the true catholic faith, without which no salvation is possible." Whatever amiable Roman Catholics may think, the Church officially dooms all non-Roman Catholics to destruction. 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