CHURCH ENTEHTE.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume X, Issue 18, 5 January 1920, Page 2

CHURCH ENTEHTE.

ANGLICANS AND WESLEYANS. Details' of the suggested reunion scheme of the Church of England and the Wesleyans were recently given by the Bishop of London in an address to the members of the- Old St. Paul’s Lecture Society. ■ It w»s provided by- the scheme that after Ist January, 1921/; there sh° ul “ be ho Ordinations in -either. Church which were not considered valid by tire other. There would be a Bishop with the Presbyters at the laying on of hands, and at the end of 40 years there would be no. Wesleyan Minister who i would not have *been ordained by a Bishop of the Church of EnglandIn order to got Wesleyan ministers episcopally ordafoed at once, 12 .Presbyters would be'consecrated bishops. Unordained Wesleyan-ministers ought to be regarded by the'Church as prophets, and they shoiild ho allowed to preacii in the pulpits of wre Church of England- , Many Wesleyans were keen for the restoration of confirmation in 'the reunited Church, but the Episcopal Church ought to be prepared to admit to their altars members of the Wesleyan' Church, even' if they did hot tee their way to be confirmed. It was certain that other Churches would want to join them, and he be- ; lieved the time would come when they ' would be fo close, association, not only with , the Churches of Greece and of i Russia, but with the Church of Borne. When interviewed. Dr. J. Scott Lidi gett said the scbeUre alluded to by the i Bishop was a suggestion mado as the result- of an informal meeting of inemI hers of the Church of England apd .certain Wesleyan Methodists. It had not gone beyond that stage, and had not been submitted to any responsible body either of the Established Church or of the Wesleyan Methodist Church.