CHRISTIAN UNITY

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 12, 14 July 1938, Page 11

CHRISTIAN UNITY

THE CHURCH'S PART

IMPORTANT REPORTS

In. his address to the Wellington Anglican Diocesan «Synod this afternoon the Yen. Archdeacon Bullock dealt with what the churches are doing towards a united Church and the Kingdom of God.

Archdeacon Bullock referred to the Oxford Conference of Life and Work and the Edinburgh Conference of Faith and Order, held in 1937, both of which, he said, were essays towards a consolidation of the Christian power of love, which the time of crisis and opportunity demanded. Mr. Bullock suggested that it might be helpful to many Christian congregations in New Zealand to have read to them what the Archbishop of York in St. Giles' Cathedral, and the Edinburgh Conference, confirmed. The opening paragraph read: "We are one in faith in Our Lord Jesus Christ, the incarnate Word of God. We are one in allegiance to Him as head of the Church and as King of Kings and Lord of Lords. We are one in acknowledging that this allegiance takes precedence of any other allegiance that may make claim upon us."

"When we remember," said Mr. Bullock, "that this was affirmed by 414 delegates from 122 different churches in 43 different countries, and when'we recollect that never perhaps since it was put together was the Apostles' Creed repeated by a more widely representative gathering, we shall not be willing to keep our people in ignorance of such efforts."

Mr. Bullock referred also to the report of the commission oh Christian doctrine, which, with the title of "The Doctrine of the Church of England," appeared early this year. It was, said Mr. Bullock; a momentous document. He believed it to be both Biblical and Catholic in the true sense. It might well be, too, that the report would have a very far-reaching effect on reunion, "I "would therefor©,", added Mn. Bullock, "commend it to ali, but especially to my brother clergy,-whose handbook it should be for the next ten or twenty years. I can think-of ho better method of digesting the report than the preparation of courses of sermons based on its findings. Let it be remembered that in the midst of a surpassingly rich field of scientific achievement, our generation languishes for need of theology, the queen of the sciences—the knowledge of God . and His ways." ,