"LIVE AND LET LIVE."

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1949, 5 January 1914, Page 5

"LIVE AND LET LIVE."

DR HENSLEY HENSON ON THE

HIKUYU CONCORD. REBUKE TO THE BISHOP OF ZANZIBAR. PROTESTANT RAPPROCHEMENT A DELICATE ISSUE. By Tolejrftpb-Press Association-Copyright London, January 2. Referring to the Kikuyu Concord—an agreement I'or an East African Federation of tho non-Roman Catholic Churches in tho mission field —the Dean of Durham (Dr. Honson) said that in spirit and substance tho Bishop of Zanzibar's attitudo was distinctively Roman. Though he (Dr. Henson) would never seek to drive tho Bishop of Zanzibar from tho Anglican Church, tho Bishop of Zanzibar must recognise that indispensable principle of "live and let live." It was tho Church's duty to draw closer the ether Protestant Churches. Tho "Guardian," the authoritative organ of tho Church of England,- says that a working arrangement between tho Anglican and other Protestant Churches < f tho Empire would be the greatest religious event since tho Reformation. "But," tho paper adds, "there- are- things which the Church cannot relinquish in tho causo of reunion, especially if the effort produces a schism within its own borders." The Archbishop of York (Dr. Lang) says that tho discussion will test the Church's power to know its own mind and to take its own placo in_ Christendom. However, unless tho issues aro wisely handled, the present matter will set back tho courso of Christian unity by endangering Anglican unity. Tho "Spectator" observes that if Dr. Core's (Bishop of Oxford) threat of disruption owing to the Evangelical Churches giving a sacrament to Nonconformists, proves to bo ?. deliberate view, "we arc compelled to admit that we could not remain in the Church. Every layman has a statutory right to receive the Communion in his parish: Church Law prevents those desiring to be included in the Church from being driven forth on the grounds of their religious opinion. The vast majority of tho English laity, even of the High Church views, know Mint if the Church be narrowed to episcopal sect establishment could not, last a day. (Rcc. January 4, 5.5 p.m.) Lontion, January 3. Tho Council of the Church Association is writing to tho Bishop of Mombassa and the Bishop of Uganda expressing its sympathy' and support in. their movement for tho establishment of a Protestant Federation in East Africa. At a meeting of High Churchmen in London six hundred signatures were secured pledging supporters to back the. Bishop of Zanzibar's -efforts to bring the Bi.-Jliops of Uganda and Mombasa to trial for their connection with 'the initiation of tho Kikuyu Concord,-a .working alliance of tho non-Roman Catholic, Churches, in the East African mission' fields, formed to maintain a balance of influence nrainst the advantage at present held by the Roman Catholii Church and Mahommedanism in the vast territory opened up by the Uganda railway. The basis of the scheme is that all tho parties accept the Bible, the Apostles, the Nicene Creed, and the Baptism in tho ivwe of the Trinity; that.those not confirmed should not be repelled .from Com-., imin-ion; that the form of Common Prayer should be adopted on the basis of tho Anglican Pray&r Book. • ■ ■