MISSIONARY WORK.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 97, 24 December 1913, Page 6

MISSIONARY WORK.

NON-CATHOLIC FEDERATION. ,[By Electric Telegraph— Copyright] [United Press Association,j London, December 23. An animated controversy is in progress in connection with the federation of non-Roman Catholic churches. Tire East African-Uganda railway opened Vast fields of work, but divisions in the nen-Romau Catholic churches gave the Roman Catholics and the Moliaracmdans a great advantage. A conference ol missionaries at Kikua in June proposed a scheme of federation on the basis of all parties accepting the Bible, the Apostles’ and Niocene creeds, and Baptism in the Name of the Holy Trinity. It was also proposed that those who are not confirmed should not be repelled from Holy Communion, and that a foym of comonm prayer should he adopted, based on the Anglican prayer book. The Bishop of Zanzibar, who belongs to the Universities’ Mission, is now seeking to wreck the federation by accusing the Bishops of I gaiida and Moinbassa, who are members of the Church Missionary Society, ol heresy. The Bishop of Uganda is accused of administering the Sacrament to non-conformists. A similar federation was proposed at Shanghai in 1908.