CHURCH UNION.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20108, 11 December 1930, Page 2

CHURCH UNION.

THE PRIMATE'S VISION. (FROM OTO OWN COBMSPOXDEHT.) LONDON, October 31. The progress made towards the reunion among the various „ branches of the Church throughout the world was stressed by the Archbishop of Canterbury when presiding at a meeting held at Church House, Westminster, in connexion with the sixty-sixth anniversary of the Anglican and Eastern Churches Association. He recalled that this year's Lambeth Conference was attended by a delegation from the Orthodox Churches of the East. "There were events," he added, "which may, so far as we know, constitute a very real landmark in the long progress of the Church of God towards its visible reunion here on earth. We have still a great distance to cover. "There are many difficulties to overcome, many misunderstandings to be removed, much knowledge of our respective traditions to be exchanged. I am already in process of forming a commission of our divines, which will meet, I trust, ere long, a similar commission appointed by the (Ecumenical Patriarch, and that we shall thus be able to prepare together for the prosynod of the Orthodox Church which, we trust, will meet next year; "I see the vision grow more clear of a -great community of churches united in Catholic iaith and order spreading in all parts of the world, none of them absorbed in any other, but all of them rejoicing in their freedom and selfgovernment, bound together by all those traditions which, for centuries past and for centuries to come, will mark the one Catholic Church of Christ."