PAN ANGLICAN CONGRESS

Otago Witness, Issue 2840, 19 August 1908, Page 19

PAN ANG L ICAN CONGRESS

. ; THE THAiraSGIVINa OFFERING.

LONDON, August 11. * The Archbishop of Canterbury states . that" £125,000 out of the £345,000 constituting the Pan-Anglican Congress thanksgiving offering was already allotted to specific objects by the honors. In distributing .the balance for clerical educational needs, North-west Canada, part of Australasia, and the South Seas would be 'borne in mind. August 12. Many colonial and other bishops visited Lindisfarne, where the Archbishop of Melbourne (Dr Clarke) preached among the ruins. Lindisfarne, or Holy Island, derives its name froni a monastery founded on it in 635 by Oswald, King of Northumbria. The •monastery, after being plundered and destroyed by the Danes in the three preceding centuries;- was restored by the Normans in 1082 as the cell of the Benedictine Monastery- at Durham. It was also an episcopal * see, _pf which St. Cuthbert was consecrated bishop in 685. August 14. ' TH-©~"3?rima.te's -committee on the deaTth of curates is obtaining opinions from Xiabour leaders and others on the suggestion to obtain curates from the artisan class. ! August 15. . Tho Lambeth. Conference resolved that in future no clergyman shall be allowed •to paes from one diocese to another without direct communication with the bishop "whose- diocese he is leaving.