High Church.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1, 31 December 1913, Page 5

High Church.

KITUYU CONTROVERSY.

COLUMNS IN THE NEWSPAPERS

[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] (United Press association, t London, December 30. The Kituyu controversy is increasing; the newspapers are devoting columns to it. The Daily Chronicle defines the f sue as whether every Christian Lr, isli subject belongs to the Chure; England by right of citizenship or enters through baptism and confirmation.

Dean Wace, upholding the* Kituyu concord, asks that the Primate’s final judgment 'be not prejudiced by the arbitary assumption that communion with members of the non-episcopa! churches is forbidden on the sole ground of lack of episcopacy.

The Spectator recalls that Queen Alexandra, the Prince Consort and other members of the Royal hamilj never were confirmed, yet communion was always administered to them.

The Bishop of Oxford, Canon KnoxLittle, Canon Mason (of Canterbury), and Lord William Cecil rally .'to the support of the Bishop of Zanzibar. At a meeting of high churchmen at Pusey Home they, secured six hundred signatures to a memorial pledging support to the Bishop of Zanzibar’s efforts to bring the Bishops ol Mombassa and Ugada to trial for heresy.

The Indian National Conference of Missionaries at Calcutta and the China National Conference at Shanghai have expressed views similar tc those expressed at Kikuyu, during the year.

A STRONG INDICTMENT. (Received 11.55 a.m.) London, December 30. The Bishop of Durban states that of niter-communion be declared heretical it will be trie first official avowal that the Church of England has no lot or part with the non-Espiscopal churches. The Church has never vet iieen committed to the tenet that divine grace runs only through a certain Episcopal channel.

, (In order to prevent the' scandal of various Christian bodies working against one another in the mission field it was agreed by the religion! bodies concerned—except the Roman Catholics—that all who had beer, baptised and accepted the Bible aim doctrines expressed in the Apostles' and Nicen’e Creeds, should bo admitted to Holy Communion:' The Bishop of Zanzibar, . apparently, a Rig!' Churchman, now accuses the bishops of Uganda and Momhassa, who agreed to the compact, of heresy. In view of the rapid speed of Mahommedanism in Central Africa it is regrettable that “order and doctrine” should be considered ot such overwhelming importance as to prevent the various churches uniting to battle against ignorance and superstition.)