TO RESTORE UNITY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19919, 15 August 1927, Page 7

TO RESTORE UNITY

CHRISTIAN CHURCHES Lausanne Conference Faces Difficult Task A TOUCHING INCIDENT REPORTED. , (By Telegraph—Per Press Assn. —Copyright.) Received August 14, 7 pan. (A. & N.Z.) LAUSANNE, Aug. 13. The Faith, and Order Conference has a most difficult task considering the committees’ reports. The Bishop of Bombay (Dr. Palmer) said Calvin made a most amazing mistake trying to reform the Church on the pattern of the Apostolic age minus the Apostles. The Church was not a democracy, but a monarchy of which Christ was King. Dr. Scherer, of the American Lutheran Church, declared that before a reunion of Protestant and Catholic churches a constitutional episcopate might be possible through the growth of unity, independent of outward forms, but he feared the theory of the Apostolic Succession would lead to the acknowledgment of the Pope’s supremacy.

Critics anticipate that the *delicate question of the number of sacraments to be observed will prove a stumbling block to the desire for unity. One touchinug incident is recorded. Tho Norwegian delegate, the Rev. Hertzeberg, who was dying, realised that he could not live through the night, and handed over his address to a friend, who read it after his death, all members of the Conference standing with bowed heads.