ECCLESIASTICAL WRANGLING

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 24 December 1913, Page 5

ECCLESIASTICAL WRANGLING

LONDON, Dec. 23. An animated controversy is in progress in connection with, the federation of non-Roman Catholic churches. The East Africa-Uganda railway opened vast fields of work but divisions in the non-Roman Catholic churches gave the Roman Catholics and the Moham^ medans a great advantage. A conference of missionaries at Kikua in June proposed a scheme of federation on the basis of all parties accepting the Bible, the Apostles' aiid Niocene creeds, and Baptism in the Name of the Holy Trinity. It was also proposed that those who are not confirmed should not be repelled from Holy Communion, and that a form of common prayer should bo adopted, based on the Anglican prayer book.

The Bishop of Zanzibar, who belongs to the Universities' Mission, is now seeking to wreck the federation by accusing the Bishops of Uganda and Mombassa, who are members of the Church Missionary Society, of heresy. The Bishop of Uganda is accused of administering the Sacrament to nonconformists. A similar federation was proposed at Shanghai in 1908.