PAN-ANGLICAN CONGRESS

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 251, 16 July 1908, Page 7

PAN-ANGLICAN CONGRESS

• * ... ALLOCATION OF THANKOFFERING. (BY TEIiEGEAPH—PItESS ASSOCIATION—COPiKIGBT.) London, July 14. The Archbishop of Sydney (Dr. Saumarez Smith) is a member of tho committeo which has been deputod to allocate: tho unappropriated portion of the Pan-Anglican thankoffering, amounting to ; £200,000. A REPRESENTATIVE COMMITTEE. The total amount of the offering was .£333,208— England and Wales contributing ,£257,122, Scotland £5599, Ireland .£3939, the Army, .£391, English and ' colonial .dioceses ■£63,695, and American dioceses £14,055. ' A portion of the thank offering was given for special objects, tho remainder-boing given, unconditionally.' Writing on the subject in tho "Guardian" of Hay 20, Bishop Montgomery states: — . , "The unappropriated thankoffering will bo allocated by a committee appointed by the Lambeth Conference. Rut this does not mean that it must bo fcomposcd of bishops only. I prophesy that the future committee will not only be thoroughly representative of every part of tho world, but that' it will consist of bishops, clergy, laymon, and women. Personally, I hope that membors of the American Church will sit upon it even though we arc given to understand that they cannot join in the thankoffering iu consenuonco of their own exertions last year in tho same ; direction for their Missions. This docs not debar, tliem surely from acting upon the committee, nor from sharing, if necessary, in the benefits of the Offering. "Wo look upon the £200,000 given by them last year for. their Missions as part of our own thaukofforing for a very important section of the Anglican Communion, and that consequently wo have all derived benefit from it. We have often been asked to prophesy how the committee, not yet appointed, will appropriate tho thankoffering; such is the innate suspicion of some, members of our race as to tho destination of their money. And we have beon com- ; polled to attempt some kind of answer by saying that if we were called upon to appropriate that offering we should desire so to place it tliat great strategic centres should be strongly enforced—such as tho Church in the Par East, in India, in Africa, in Canada."