THE ANGLICAN CHURCH

Taranaki Daily News, 19 December 1930, Page 16

THE ANGLICAN CHURCH

WORLD-WIDE ACTIVITIES. “NAME TOO RESTRICTIVE.” “One of the outstanding features of the Lambeth Conference was the growing conviction that the name “The Anglican Communion’ for our Church throughout the world is becoming too restrictive,” said Archbishop Averill at Auckland the other evening. “The name is only a convenient term to include those grounded in the doctrines and ideals of the Church of England. There is nothing particularly ‘Anglican’ about the American Church or the Church in China or South India.” The whole outlook was becoming broader, said Archbishop Averill, rhe Church no longer desired to make “Anglicans” in Japan, or Africa or China, or other parts of the world. What it desired was to found churches which, while holding the fundamental beliefs of the Anglican Church, would nevertheless be independent, self-gov-erning, autonomous, aifd free to develop alone/ the lines of the national genius of the country to which they belonged. The rrreat connecting link would ba the Lambeth Conference. By following those lines the Church would best be able to see the wider outlook and advance the cause of Christianity.