PAN-ANGLICAN CONGRESS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLII, Issue 139, 13 June 1908, Page 5

PAN-ANGLICAN CONGRESS.

TO BE OPENED. ON MONDAY. SEVEIIr SECTIONS TO MEET. [PKESS ASSOCIATION.] /Received Juno 12, 10.55 p.m.) LONDON, June 12. Sixteen Australian bishops will at-' tend service in Westminster Abbey on tli^ 15th, inaugurating the first Pan-Anglican- Congress. . The Congress will include 12 archbishops, 275 bishops^ 1000 delegates from abroad and 300 from the Motherland. Moreover, 7000 lay folk from various dioceses will attend the gather-, ings.j -. '.','. To-morrow, which is hospitality day, the members will be welcomed, by London friends. The ' Pilgrims entertain the prelates at the Savoy on the 15th, Lord Roberts presiding. The Prince and Princess of Wales are inviting many of the members to a garden party at Marlborough House on the 25th, when the King and •Queen will be present. Seven sections of the Congress will meet daily. A great feature of the discussion will be the Imperial duty of the Church, especially towards the pioneers of the Oversea Dominions and the teeming native races. The men's meetings will be another feature, and apart from the Congress 120 gatherings will be held in the large halls, including a mass meeting every nightr.in the Albert Hall,