ative influence upon the mind and character of the
individual believer.

(3) This word of God is contained in the Old and New Testaments and
constitutes the permanent spiritual value of the Bible.

(4) The root and centre of this revelation, as intellectually
interpreted, consists in a positive and highly distinctive doctrine
of God--His nature, character and will. From this doctrine of God
follows a certain sequence of doctrines concerning creation, human
nature and destiny, sin, individual and racial, redemption through
the incarnation of the Son of God and His atoning death and
resurrection, the mission and operation of the Holy Spirit, the
Holy Trinity, the Church, the last things, and Christian life and
duty, individual and social: all these cohere with and follow from
this doctrine of God.

(5) Since Christianity offers an historical revelation of God, the
coherence and sequence of Christian doctrine involve a necessary
synthesis of idea and fact such as is presented to us in the New
Testament and in the Apostles' and Nicene Creeds: and these Creeds
both in their statements of historical fact and in their statements
of doctrine affirm essential elements of the Christian faith as
contained in Scripture, which the Church could never abandon
without abandoning its basis in the word of God.

(6) We hold that there is no contradiction between the acceptance
of the miracles recited in the Creeds and the acceptance of the
principle of order in nature as assumed in scientific enquiry, and
we hold equally that the acceptance of miracles is not forbidden by
the historical evidence candidly and impartially investigated by
critical methods.

This was followed by a statement of agreement on matters relating to
order as follows:

With thankfulness to the Head of the Church for the spirit of unity
He has shed abroad in our hearts we go on to express our common
conviction on the following matters:

(1) That it is the purpose of our Lord that believers in Him should
be, as in the beginning they were, one visible society--His body
with many members--which in every age and place should maintain the
communion of saints in the unity of the Spirit and should be
capable of a common witness and a common activity.

(2) That our Lord ordained, in add