erence and conviction than the agreement to the whole Declaration would require from any other body of Christian people." These utterances are the key-note of the present volume.

It remains for the Church Club to fix here a record of its deep obligation to the accomplished Lecturers of 1895 - Bishop Gailor, Archdeacons Chambré and Olmsted, the Rev. Dr. Body, and the Rev. Francis J. Hall--for their generous labors.

New York, July 21, 1895.

Christian Unity-The Master's Word

and the Church's Act.

LECTURE I.

THE RT. REV. THOMAS F. GAILOR, D.D
Assistant Bishop of Tennessee.

CHRISTIAN UNITY—THE MASTER'S WORD AND THE CHURCH'S ACT.

IT is a depressing experience to visit a town of 1,800 inhabitants, where perhaps 500 people attend church on Sunday, and to find that there are ten or twelve rival churches in the place, bidding for the patronage of these five hundred people; and that the expense of maintaining this multitude of sects is so great that no denomination can afford to have a resident minister. Yet this is getting to be a not uncommon ecclesiastical condition in many Eastern and Southern towns. It is not to be wondered at, under the circumstances, that a large proportion of the community are non-church-goers, that the great majority are indifferent, and that there is no religious provision for works of practical charity. There are large districts in this country where religion flourishes after a certain fashion, and where yet a free