"One of the most difficult tasks of the new commission will be a thorough examination of the arguments pro and con on the validity of Anglican or dinations. The bull apostolic se dis by Leo X has settled in the negative the program of that validity, but generally theological schools assume a more favorable attitude toward acknowledgment or the validity of Anglican orders, and the new commission or cardinals will carefully ponder the reasons set forth by Russian and Anglican divines against the decision of Pope Leo X. The friendship of the Anglican Church is appreciated by Rome, for she may be as a link of union between Roman Catholicism and Russian orthodoxism."

The movement toward Christian unity started by the world conference, excited interest and sympathies in Rome, and Cardinal Saspurri, in the name of the Pope, wrote to the secretary of the world conference. Hubert H. Gardiner, several letters which seem to reproduce the style and the feelings of Leo XIII. But that correspondence would not have had any tangible results if the conference had not met with a great success in Russia. The official organ of the Holy Synod has praised the initiative of the world conference, and exhorted the Russian hierarchy to give their cooperation to it.

Dr. Palmieri made public a letter he had just received from Professor W. 