one. Doctrinal chaos, such as we now see outside of the Catholic
Church, is the inevitable result of compromise. Winston Churchill's
famous novel, "Inside of the Cup," is nothing but the diagnosis of this
disintegration which Protestant Churches are now witnessing.

The history of Protestantism is but the history of its changes of
religious belief. For "between authority and impressionism in matters of
Revelation, there is no alternative." As Christianity is not the product
of the human mind, but a Revelation from God, authority,--a divinely
constituted infallible and living authority--is a necessity, and the only
possible bond of unity.

This disintegrating principle of "private judgment" in matters of Divine
Revelation has been at work since the inception of Protestantism. By the
very force of its dissolving power the primary elements of a supernatural
religion have fast disappeared from the various creeds. One by one the
different Churches have drifted away from their Christian moorings and
taken to the high seas of Rationalism. Assailed by the storms of
unbelief they are breaking on the rocks of religious indifference. Empty
churches are the natural outcome of empty creeds. "The dominant
tendencies are indeed increasingly identified with those currents of
thought which are making way from the definiteness of the ancient Faith,
toward Unitarian vagueness." If Bishop Kinsman, Anglican Bishop of
Delaware, a recent convert to the Catholic Faith, gave this statement as
one of the reasons for leaving the Anglican Creed, with how much more
truth could it not be made of the kaleidoscopic tenets of other
denominations?

This process of dissolution of doctrinal grounds is bound to continue.
The fluid condition of the various churches testifies to the uncertainty
of their actual position and forces them to seek the lowest doctrinal
level. "Their standard is determined by the minimum, rather than by the
maximum view tolerated, since their official position must be gauged, not
by the most they allow, but by the least they insist on." (F. Kinsman.)
The remnants of Christianity that were still to be found in their
teachings are now looked upon as "obsolete dogmas" and, as such,
obstacles to unity. The very fundamental mysteries of the Incarnation
and the Redemption are fast growing dim in the minds and hearts of men.[3]

The Protestant Churches will never come back to their former position.
In this Church-union move