ANCLICAN AND EASTERN CHURCHES.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 395, 2 January 1909, Page 13

ANCLICAN AND EASTERN CHURCHES.

REUNION MOVEMENT. . The second-anniversary of- the. Anglican and Eastern. Orthodox Churches' Union took place. on> Octobor; 22.-,- High ; Mass, preceded by, the>Litany ■ in.procession, was sung at-St. Alban s, Holbprn, the proacher being the Rev. r - Davoy Biggs. .A largo-congregation was Biggs'.dealt hopefully with the difficulties' which-the'cross play of politics iu Esst: throws, in' the way ' of reunion.. In tho. afternoon a: conversazione at the Church House-was/attended; by many wellknown clergy and laymen, including Bishop Blyth,' Dr. (ionnadius, ex-Minister of . Greece at. tho Court of St. James's; Dr. Pouptis; Canon Ingram;-Archdeacon Potter ofCyprua; and other Anglicans and Easterns. : . :, . Tho vice-president of the union, Fr. Suckling, who presided .over , a :large meeting at .'the same.'.place.iaithe eyening, read messages from the; prosidents of tho union,' tho Bishop of. Gibraltar, ;and Archbishop of. Riga (Russia),, Bishop, Gaul, who had joined tho committee,; tho, American , branch. secretary, and many absent sympathisers and members.. Ho ■said tho:' ; pri'grfess of #e .past ,twelve 'months had been-great.- They .had now twenty-eight bishops 6r bothcommunions. on tho list- of their: member's, !■ Among otheTS things - which the' union .did,-, was -the.-getting them but of that/miserable jof thinking; that , the Anglicanv w&s ■ the only-- Church. The Rev. Leighton Pullan spoke - on the bearing - of ':the : rosolutions"on' the Eastern Church of the Lambeth Conferencei If these were .not .always- as strong as they could wish, : \at .least; they i.recognised in., an unique' manner tho;Eastern Orthodox Church: They might all live,;to .'B«s ; ; great' changes l in the' Near, East, ;s in.,Turkey and in' Russia, and whatever; light they saw dawning ought to rekindle their _ hopes. Dr.: Gennadiits said that he rejoiced to take partin.thowork of the union. It had . ftr'oused : enthusiasm'iin ;the: East.:: The: Greek Church had never disputed the validity of Anglican Orders, and looked 'with hope to closer relations'-n-ith'the:English Communion. FAMOUS PASTOR DEAD. The Rev. Dr. Bruce,'an ex-chairman of tho Congregational -Union- and. for about half 'a centui-y \minister" of the' Highfield Church, Huddersfleldj.'died at,his,residence in.Harrogato on November, 6, in his 79th year, his health having:': broken down some time ago. The son of a farmer, he 'was born. in 1829 in Aberdeenshire. , Ho graduated- at King's College and the University of Aberdeen, and gained ■ first-class mathematical houoiirs "in 1848. : He was trained at the Lancashire Indepondortt. -College, Manchester, for the ministry; and ordained in 1854 at the Highfield Church. Ho remained there as pastor until his retirement; ' fifty years -'afterwards ; his jubilee being suitably observed. He became chairman of the Congregational Union of Engltind; arid-Wales .in 1888; and was for • many" years- the -leading spirit > in Yorkshire :Congregationalism..' ■ .He 'took a great'- interest in education, being for twenty years chairman of the. Huddersfield School Board. He was a governor of tho local infirmary and a trustee of the savings bank, Two years ago he V/as made'afrceman of the borough.

As V tutor in his early years at Blackburn Academy Dr. Bruce had Mr. John Morley (now Lord Morley) for a pupil.

THE RESURRECTION. Sir; Oliver Lodge, tho famous' scientist, writes to the -'Church Times" as follows "Sir,—To my surprise I have received many letters from readers of "reviews, of my. recent book, which indicate that these readers and some reviewers imagine that' I wish to deny the Christian' Resurrection. This ' Was so far from my- thoughts that I. took 210 adequate precaution' against so singular, an /illusion. Will you allow me, therefore, to attempt to remove .this understanding by expanding tM last two lines of Page 290 'to tho'- following, in order more clearly to express my meaning: 'The record may be taken as exact, without any. _need[ for assuming -identity of material partioles in the resurreotion body.: The: appearances during tho . forty - days - aro ' mysterious, but they can bo accepted very much as thoy stand; for:they-agree, with. our. experience of genuine psychical phenomena tho world: ovor.'—Oliver Lodge.''