PAN-ANGLICAN CONGRESS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 153, 19 June 1908, Page 3

PAN-ANGLICAN CONGRESS.

Received ISth, IUS p.m. London, June 18.

At tlw I'an Anglican Congress meeting at Albert Hall, Archbishop Clarke urged the organisation of tUc CliurcVflnance. The Bi»«ou of New Cuinca addr.',.-,-1 the industrial missions section.

Rcv. A. C. Hoggins, New Zealand, a dressing the education section, referr, to the gradual change of feeling in X> Zealand in favor of religion given 1 trained teachers as a part cf the dai.! education.

The Bishop of X«tlli Queen-dand clared that a race o! white (lagan? w growing up in Jom« pwrts of Queen land.

COMMKXTS «V TIIK TIMES. Dealing with the \"\»r* to be real and the subjects to he discussed , tilTillies says:—"We have Is'fore us some 35 essays, which ileal with the Anglican (Vminnnimi in itself, in relation t» its parts, and in relation to other Christian bodies. h -Here the most important problems * <re the relations of Anglicanism to An glo-iNixun Nonconformity, and the ncel of »omc central authority tor the Aug >- . can Communion, less ciiinbcr-ojnc, more homogeneous, anil more readily summonp }ed than the Lambeth Conference of I'.is.i j

j. ' Oft. We doubt if the coming ('nngri. Jp can throw much light ou the former prJ . ' Mem, bnt it may well bring ns to a sola tion of the latter. •"Nothing can be more futile than t> tpke «P the parable of the l'riiuate >l A'cw Zealand, whon- p.iper di-nic; h.

I Deed of fuch central autlicrity. and ail I- -: some Cassandra-like warnings aixuit '.- inevitable teudemy. .Mr. Engine moc'k

gives a fur ahrii'der verdlef.' "The . = 11 %m, ir ' - %i- needed, he Kvls. on :• cons;,'t.iti.". '.a-'-.

flut it* authority can hardly anioiin 1" *»- coercion, and there must W freedom r»r I local churches to accept or reject it- de » eisions. Still, the univiTs.il acceptance tjf of any one decision would immense v Ri add to the motive power of the who e fcj, Communion. The task for the appoint P* ed and carefully selected speaker* will lift be no light one, but, successful*- .imm If; ptished, it ought to have the 'eirect sf S. commending an historic, a still rigorous, jf" a far-spreading Church to the interest K- and to the admiration of the people of this country."