CHURCH UNION.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIII, Issue 96, 21 April 1909, Page 5

CHURCH UNION.

THE .CONGREGATIONAL ATTI-

TUDE,

1[ PRESS ASSOCIATION] ] {Received April 21, 10.30 a.m.) MELBOURNE, April .21. At the liaH>yearly meeting of the Congregational Union, reference was made to the proposed union of the churches.

Dr JBevan thought that they should take a1 straightout course, and either say that they were going into, the subject or jdrop. it. Therpresident said that the Union's committee had decided not to meet till it received the reports of the Lambeth Conference.

Dr Bevan replied: "That conference ihas met, arid we don't know where we are. Meanwhile, some sort df^nego- , tiations -■ are going on between Anglicans;ianH:Presbyterians." The Anglican'demand for an historic episcopate was, 'he said, urihistorical, un^Cnristian, iillogical arid -perfectly 'impossible. Tlt was merely an ecclesiastical dodge'to secure supremacy. . It Wjas aga-eed that the Committee should submit a motion at the' October meeting.