"While  maintaining  the  freedom  of  our  Fellowship,  we  take  upon
us  this  Covenant  as  Churchmen,  believing  in  the  continuous  exist-
ence through  the  ages  of  that  wonderful  and  sacred  mystery  which  is
the  Church,  and  with  the  sole  ambition  to  serve  the  Church  in  the
love  of  men  and  in  obedience  to  God  in  Whom  alone  is  our  confidence
for  all   these   things."


320  WORKING   WITH   GOD

Mundi."  It  was  edited  by  B,  H.  Streeter,  dean  of
Queen's  College,  Oxford,  who  has  since  then  brought
forth  a  valuable  book  entitled  ''Restatement  and  Re-
union." All  this  indicates  that  the  trend  of  English
thought  is  towards  unity.
I  wish  I  could  speak  of  the  days  at  Oxford  when
we  were  the  guests  of  "W.  B.  Selbie,  principal  of  Mans-
field College,  and  at  Cambridge  when  we  were  the
guests  of  John  Skinner,  principal  of  Westminster  Col-
lege, especially  the  day  spent  in  the  home  of  C.  A.
Scott,  professor  in  Westminster  College.  From  a
small  church  near  there  C.  H.  Spurgeon  went  to  his
London  pastorate,  which  in  a  short  while  became  one
of  the  leading  pulpits  of  the  world.  Many  interest-
ing memories  cluster  there  regarding  the  great  Baptist
preacher,  whose  sermons  are  still  published  every  week
in  London.  I  wish  I  had  space  to  speak  of  the  cour-
tesies from  Sir  Robert  Perks,  Althestan  Riley  and
many  others,  but  I  must  close  this  account  with  relat-
ing our  experience  in  Scotland  and  the  meeting  with
the  Anglicans.
