PAN-ANGLICAN CONGRESS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9170, 13 June 1908, Page 5

PAN-ANGLICAN CONGRESS.

AN ORGY OF DISCUSSION,

United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. London, June 12. Sixteen Australian Bishops will :attend service at the Abbey on the 15th, when will be inaugurated the ifirst Pau-Anglicau Congress, which will include 13 archbishops, 275 ibishops and 10,000 delegates from .abroad, and 300 from the Motherland. Moreover. 7000 laymen from •various dioceses will attend the .gathering. To-morrow, which is “Hospital IDav, ’’ members will be welcomed to /London by friends. The prelates will be entertained at vthe Savoy on the 15th. Lord Roberts \will preside. The Prince and Princess of Wales have invited many members to a .garden party at Marlborough House on the 35th, when the King and Queen will be present. Seven sections of the Congress will meet daily. A great feature will be a discussion of the Imperial duty of the church, especially toward pioneers in the oversea Dominions [and the teeming native races. A men’s meeting will be another feature. Apart from the Congress, 120 gatherings will be held in large halls including a mass meeting nightly at the Albert Hall.