CHURCHES AND REUNION
HOPE FOR THE FUTURE (Australian and N.Z. Press Association 2 (United Service) LONDON, Saturday. A new stag;e in the long progress toward Christian reunion was reached to-day at Cheltenham, when Archbishop Germanos, of the Greek Orthodox Church, stood with two of the foremost members of the German and Danish Lutheran Churches and representatives of five of the British Free Churches on the platform of the Church Congress. The depth of the understanding revealed by their drew from Dr. A. C. Headlam, Bishop of Gloucester, the remark that what had seen and heard encouraged the hope that something might be accomplished in the future in the direction of reunion. “We do not want,” he said, “to make a pact with this or that Church. We are not as yet ready, but if we consider the subjects uppermost to-day we must realise the immense gain it will be when we are allowed to hear men of other creeds in our pulpits, and when we can preach to them.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 479, 8 October 1928, Page 14
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