FUTURE OF CHRISTENDOM

Grey River Argus, 2 June 1943, Page 2

FUTURE OF CHRISTENDOM

Anglican Primate ADVOCATES REUNION. _ RUGBY, May 25. The Archbishop of Canterbury in his presidential address to the Convocation of Canterbury, to-day, said: “The Christian tradition is challenged, from without, more powerfully than in any period since the Dark Ages, and is in danger of being undermined by secular humanism, which hopes to retain Christian values without the Christian faith.” He said that the Churches’ divisions blunted their appeal to the public, and made impossible the complete fulfilment of the primary purpose of the church. How could they persuade an incredulous world that they had the strength of the 'unity which overleaped all barries to make them “one, man in Christ Jesus,” it they presented to that world the appearance of competing sects?” “We should, approach the question whether or 1 not a particular scheme of union is acceptable, with the conviction that the fundamental anomaly is that any two’ disciples ’of our Lord should not be in communion with one another.” He said: “We are so used to this state of things we seldom pause to appreciate its gravity. I urge that we try to recover in some measure the horror •Of divisions among Christians, which ’ was evident in St. Paul.”