“He Being Dead Yet Speaketh”

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 123, 15 August 1927, Page 1

“He Being Dead Yet Speaketh”

Touching Incident is Recorded at Lausanne

By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright LAUSANNE, Saturday. A touching incident is recorded in the World Conference on Faith and Order. A Norwegian delegate, the Rev. Dr. Hertzeberg, who was dying and realised that he could not live through the night, handed over his address to a friend, who read it after his death. All the members of the conference stood with bowed heads during the reading. The conference is faced with a most difficult task in considering the reports of its committees. The Bishop of Bombay, Dr. E. J. Palmer, said Calvin had made a most amazing mistake in trying to reform the Church on the pattern of the Apostolic age, without the Apostles. The Church was not a democracy, but a monarchy, of which Christ was the King, said the Bishop. Dr. T. Scherer, of the American Lutheran Church, said that before the reunion of the Protestant and the Catholic Churches was brought about a constitutional episcopate might be possible, through the growth of unity, independent of outward forms. Dr. Scherer said he feared, however, that the theory of the Apostolic succession would lead to the acknowledgment of the supremacy of the Pope. Critics of the conference anticipate that the delicate question of the number of sacraments to be observed will prove a stumbling-block to the desire for unity.—A. and N.Z.