De Maistre, a French Ultramontane, long ago had poi out the part which the Church of England seemed destine play in this great work when he said, 'if ever Christians to approach one another, as everything invites them to d appears that the movement ought to proceed from the Churs England.' 1 Many thought that the time was near at hand V the opportunity would be afforded to the English Churc undertake the work which De Maistre thought it espec competent to perform.