Doubts About Unity
Christian unity might look desirable to the assembled Anglicans (see above), but not to all their brethren.
CJ The International Catholic Congress in Chicago, including Episcopal, Anglican, Eastern Orthodox, Old Catholic and Polish National Catholic communions, heard Chicago's Episcopal Bishop Gerald F. Burrill cast some cold water on the Evanston ecumenists: "Pan-Protestantism is not unity. It is a temporary expedient . . . Unity must be achieved on God's terms and not on ours . . . We hear people say, 'This is the Church's last chance,' 'We must unite or be destroyed by the evil powers of atomic energy.' I am convinced that this is heresy. Our Lord has promised that the gates of Hell shall not prevail against His Church--to believe otherwise is to deny the sovereignty of God."