MEN FOR HOLY ORDERS.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18619, 15 July 1930, Page 5

MEN FOR HOLY ORDERS.

DISCUSSED AT LAMBETH CONFERENCE. United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, July 11. The Lambeth Conference discussed the supply of men for holy orders. The Archbishop of New Zealand (Dr Averill), participated. GREAT ISSUE OF RELIGION. DEFINED AT OPENING OF CONFERENCE. Speaking at the opening of the conference the Archbishop of York, in J his sermon, deprecated the undue prominence that was being assigned to the controversies within the Church. “The great issue for religion in our day,” he said, “ is not to be found in our differences about sacramental doctrine. It concerns our faith in the living God. Our first duty to the Church is to be sure how we present the truth of God so as to reveal its adequacy to the needs of the day.” The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Cosmo Gordon Lang, summoned the seventh decennial Lambeth Conference of the Anglican Churches of/the World to assemble in Lambeth Palace, London, on July 5, 1930. Acute problems facing Christendom, including readjustments imposed by the discoveries of science, new knowledge of the Bible, the sex question, industrial conditions, the place of women in the church, Christian unity and world peace, will be among the subjects discussed by the representatives of the thirty million Anglican churchmen throughout, the world gathered at ’his conclave. The Bishops in attendance include the Bishops of Great Britain. Ireland. Wales, Canada, Australia. New Zealand, South Africa, South America, India. Persia and the Pacific Isles. Dr West-Watson, of Christchurch, is attending, and during his absence Dean Julius is acting as his commissary. About sixty Bishons of the Episcopal Church in the United States are participating. A picturesque feature will be the presence of native Christian Bishops from the Orient and the Near East. The conference is meeting in Lambeth Palace and remained in session until the twelfth, when, conference committees having been set up, adjournment will be taken in accordance with, precedent, and for the next fortnight the world-wide problems of Christianity will be discussed by the various agenda committees, on which evry shade of churchmanship in every land and clime will have representation. Reassembling on July 28. daily meetings for the consideration of committee reports will be held until August 9. the day set for adjournment. The results of the conference will be embodied, as customary, in a series if resolutions and an encyclical to the erfs tire Anglican communion. While not a legislative body, but merely an assembly of the Bishops of the Anglican Church brought together at ten-year intervals for consultation, its pronouncements are not mandatory, but have increasing weight and authority the world ov«The idea of the Lambeth Conference was first suggested in a letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury by an American Bishop. Rev. John Henry Hopkins. D.D., Bishop of Vermont, in the year 1851. The first conference was held in 1867, and was followed by successive conferences in -878, 1888, 1897, 1908 and 1920.