THE LAMBETH CONFERENCE.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3553, 16 August 1920, Page 2

THE LAMBETH CONFERENCE.

LONDON, August 12. While the Lambeth Conference considered it necessary that a re-uni-ted church should have an episcopal form of government, it is inferred that it must bo an episcopate without prelatical elements. The conference passed a resolution that the peace of the world, no less than Christian principle,' demands the admission of Germany and other nations into the League of Nations at the earliest moment. The conference regarded its

I protest against colour prejudice among [ the different races of the world; which I hinders intercourse and gravely imj perils the peace of 'the world. The conference, in approving of the creation of cteaconesses, ,lj?ft it optional whether erndidates cared to pledge themselves to a life of celibacy. Opportunity should be given to qualified women to speak in; consecrated and unconsecrated buildings. A further resolution declared that Spiritualism as a cult involved the subordination of intelligence and will to unknown forces and to that extent was an abdication of the self-control to which God called us. There was a direct tendency in Christian Science to a pantheistic doctrine, while the denial of fhe reality of disease and suffering w r as irrecoghisable. j The Bishop of Auckland w r as a member i of the Industrial and Social Porblems Committee, which remarked as signifi-

cant that there was no area in New Zealand in which Prohibition carried

by a three-fifths majority had reverted

from its previous decision. The committee declared it was an offence to the conscience of a Christian commun-

ity that men able and witling to work should be forced, into idleness. It affirmed the principle of a living- wage. The Bishop of Waiapu was included among the members or the Reunion Committee.