Excerpt from The True Basis of Christian Reunion: A Paper Read Before the Durham Junior Clergy Society, Dec. 18th, 1894 I suppose, the Quakers and possibly the Anabaptists - a very different class of people - came nearest doing so in their original forms: and, in modern times, Dr. Martineau maintains it in theory, apparently regarding public worship, &c., as a concession. See his preface to Home Prayers. The discussion between the English Church and the Kirk of Scotland is largely historical and therefore falls beyond the scope of this paper. At the same time, I think that the polity of the Kirk was determined by a view of the Sacraments, of the value of an external order, and of the functions of ministers, which has more in common with Protestantism pure and simple, than with any body, which has clung to the historic discipline of the Church. The fact that Anglicanism is establz's/zea' in England and Presbyterianism in Scotland complicates the whole matter rather seriously. It gives an air of arbitrariness to the differences between the two bodies and suggests that the disabilities of a member of the Scotch Establishment when he comes South of the Tweed, are of merely legal value. But there is probably considerable likelihood that these two bodies will, in time, draw together. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.