ANGLICAN AND FREE CHURCHES
MOMENTOUS MOVE
LEADERS' DRAFT
(United Tress Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, January 21. The most momentous religious development of modern times, directly affecting nearly 32,000,000 people, is foreshadowed by the completion of a joint plan for the fusion of the. Church of England and the Methodist, Congregational, Baptist, Presby« terian, and Moravian denominations. ~ ~ ' A draft drawn up by the Arch-, bishop of York, eleven Anglican Bishops, and four leaders of the Free Churches, provides the foundation for a. United Church of England. The plan, which is the outcome of years of study, provides for the inauguration pf an Episcopal Church qomppsed of. Anglican Bishops, wno Will accept the new constitution,' and a number of Free Church Bishops chosen for consecration by their Churches. The Archbishop of Canterbury would be ex-o©cip chairman of the General Assembly. The new Church would be free from the control of the Stale in respect of faith, worship, morals, discipline, and * government, while acknowledging the jurisdiction of civil Courts on such matters as property and endowments.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 19, 24 January 1938, Page 9
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173ANGLICAN AND FREE CHURCHES Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 19, 24 January 1938, Page 9
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