16 MARCH 1951, Page 18

A Commonwealth of Churches

Sta.—Inasmuch as something very like a Commonwealth of Churches already exists in the World Council of Churches, a body consisting of accredited delegates from most of the non-Roman Christian communions, it occurs to me that what may be needed is an organisation consisting of individual members of the various Churches, which would have a similar relationship to the World Council of Churches as has the United Nations Association to the United Nations Organisation. One of the activities of such an organisation might well be the encouragement of such Bible-study groups as are proposed by Lewis C. Bond in your