These are proposals 'to be made by the Church of England for the union of _Protestants_.' Who cannot see that the power of joint life already spoken of would be far greater and stronger if it comprehended Roman Catholics too. And who cannot see, also, that in the churches of the most strong and living Roman Catholic countries,--in France and Germany,--a movement is in progress which may one day make a general union of Christendom possible? But this will not be in our day, nor is it business which the England of this generation is set to do. What may be done in our day, what our generation has the call and the means, if only it has the resolution, to bring about, is the union of Protestants. But this union will never be on the basis of the actual _Scriptural Protestantism_ of our Puritans; and because, so long as they take this for the gospel or good news of Christ, they cannot possibly unite on any other basis, the first step towards union is showing them that this is not the gospel. If we have succeeded in doing even so much towards union as to convince one of them of this, we have not written in vain. THE END. Transcriber's Notes:- Text originally written in Greek has been transliterated and framed between plus marks, thus: +hagiasmos+. Minor punctuation errors and omissions corrected. End of Project Gutenberg's St. Paul and Protestantism, by Matthew Arnold