MISSION WORK IN EAST AFRICA.

Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13892, 24 December 1913, Page 5

MISSION WORK IN EAST AFRICA.

PROPOSED FEDERATION

CONFERENCE OF NON-CATHOMO

CLEKSY.

A BISHOP'S HOSTILITY

(Received Dec,: 24, 0.5 a.m.)

Lontfon, Dec. 23!

An anfmated controversy is in pro^-' gress in connection with tho federa-'.* tion of the non-Roma.n CathoK'o= churches iff Bast Africa.

The. : .Uganda railway has, opene'X vast fields, I'iwt the divisions of tho non-Roman Catholic- churches; give R:;^ manism and' Mo-kaminedanism a great

advantage.

A conference' «f missionaries s& Kikua in June x>roposed a scheme oi federation on a, basis; of all parties accepting the Bible,' the Apostles' and Nicene Creeds, asffli . baptism iff the name of the Trinity/ It was proposed that those not "confirmed should not Be repelled from the Communion, and that a form of commeai: prayer shouTd! be adopted based on' the AnglicaißPrayer Book. v

The Bishop of Zanzil>jrr, wlio belongs* to the Universities Stesibn, is nou^ seeking to wreck the federation by accusing the Bishops of Uganda and Mombasa, who are niefiißers of the Church Missionary Society,, of heresy.

The Bishop of Uganda is accused of administering the sacrament -1» Nonconformists.

A similar federation vvosp proposed at Shanghai in 1908.