Some Remarks on Bishop Lightfoot's Dissertation on the Christian Ministry
by Charles Wordsworth (9780217052726)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: APPENDIX. As carrying on the subject of the foregoing Synodal Address, it may be useful to reprint here the concluding sentences of my Charge for the following (i.e., last) year, together with the important letter of Professor Milligan, to which I then referred. I cannot conclude this address without alluding to the gratification which I have felt, and which, I am sure, you will all share with me, in reading only two days ago the letter of Professor Milligan which appears in the ' Catholic Presbyterian' for the present month. Under the title of " Church Union," its avowed object is to advocate a unity in Scotland which shall embrace our Episcopal Church; and coming from an ex-Moderator of the Established General Assembly, and one of the most learned and most influential of Presbyterian divines, it is to be hoped that some of you may live to see the happy effects, which, under God's blessing, it is calculated to produce. In the meantime, we may well be thankful that a spirit so truly Christian, and so truly catholic, should have found expression, so able and so just, in a channel which cannot fail to convey its sentiments to leading members of the Presbyterian Churches not only in Scotland but throughout the world. The following is a copy of Dr Milligan's letter thus referred to:? 138 Letter of Dr Milligan Church Union. To the Editor of the ' Catholic Presbyterian.'] The University, Aberdeen, 1st August 1883. Dear Sir,?Referring to some remarks of yours on words which seem to have been used by me at the meeting of last General Assembly, with regard to the Pan-Presbyterian Council, allow me to say that I sincerely regret that any words of mine should have caused you a " painful sensation." Had it not been for this I should probably have thought it best to act...

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