LAMBETH CONFERENCE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10515, 7 August 1897, Page 5

LAMBETH CONFERENCE.

ENCYCLICAL LETTER PROM ARCHBISHOP TEMPLE. SOME IMPORTANT QUESTIONS. COLONIAL BRANCHES AND THE MOTHER CHURCH. Ptea AMOciation.—Electric Telepaph.-Copvtlfnt. London, August 5. The Archbishop of Canterbury (Dr. Temple) has issued an encyclical letter on the results of the Lambeth Conference, which has just been brought to a conclusion. The letter touches upon the questions of temperance and purity, the duty of the Church towards industrial problems, the enforcement of the Church's teaching regarding the brotherhood of man, and the promotion of international arbitration. The Archbishop also deals with the unity of the Church and the duty of the Church with regard to the colonies and native races, especially in connection with the sale of intoxicants. Dr. Temple indicates the formation of a central consultative body to promote the better organisation of all branches of the Anglican Communion by the exercise of a moral authority. Hβ also advises the establishment of colleges and of scholarships for the instruction of colonial students in theology, and for granting special degrees for high proficiency. The Archbishop further advocates a system of free exchanges between the clergy of the colonies and those of the motherland. Dr. Temple admits that many colonial Churches are still in need of financial assistance from England. He announces that a committee lias been appointed to facilitate a clearer understanding and closer relations between the Churches, and with this in view he urges the Bishops to promoto mutual conferences with the different Christian bodies. The Lambeth Conference, in accordance with petitions from the Australian and Tasinanian Church, has requested Archbishop Temple to obtain a retranslation of the Athanasian Creed.