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PREFACE.

T the request of the Congress Committee, I have again

seen through the press the Official Report of the Church.

Congress. As heretofore, I am bound to acknowledge my obligations to Messrs. Bemrose and Sons, the Publishers, and to Mr. C. Basil Cooke, the Official Reporter, my fellow-workers now for three successive years. None can know so well as the Editor how much both he and the Committee owe to the accurate stenography and rapid transcript work of the Reporter, and to the diligence and care of the Publishers' staff. The publication of this Volume within seven weeks of the date of Congress not only reflects high praise upon my fellow-helpers, but confers a great boon upon Subscribers, who will receive the book in time to read it while the sessions of Congress are fresh in the memory. My own work of revision has been done in the midst of the many duties and cares which are the portion of any one who has the charge of a large town parish. But although the work was undertaken at this disadvantage, it has been conscientiously carried through, and, in spite of the rapid rate at which we have been compelled to work, it will not, I hope, be found ill-done.

On behalf of the Committee, I would add that we are very grateful to Readers and Speakers for the thoughtfulness and courtesy they have shown in revising promptly the proofs and transcripts of their papers and speeches; and certainly not less for their kind forbearance under official pressure, when the return of corrected proofs was, in the case of a brief delay, urgently demanded.

As regards the Congress itself, the esprit de corps appears to have been fully maintained in the Border City. It could scarcely have

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been otherwise with so popular a Congressionist as the Bishop of Carlisle for President. The number of members was necessarily smaller than at recent Congresses, on account of the distance of the place of meeting from large centres of population.

One feature of the present Congress deserves notice. While Reading had for its motto 'íva távтeç ev woɩ, Carlisle went a long way towards realising it in the hearty welcome she accorded the representatives of various branches of the great Anglo-Saxon Church -Scotland, Ireland, Canada, South Africa, and the United States.

May each succeeding Church Congress manifest, in increasing measure, the unity of the Anglo-Saxon race in the One Body of Christ, and so prepare the way for that more extended unity-the federation of all the Churches-for which every true Christian heart yearns and prays.

The Volume now goes forth with the hearty desire that it may be used of God to the edifying of His Church and people.

S. Mary's Vicarage, Wolverhampton,

November 17th, 1884.

C. DUNKLEY.

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