The Pan-Anglican Congress has been in session during the past
week, and the proceedings have been marked by a zeal and enthusiasm in every way appropriate to the tremendoti. issues with which the speakers have dealt. We have written of the Congress elsewhere, but may note here the speech made by the Prime Minister at the Pilgrims' " banquet of welcome" at the Savoy Hotel on Monday night. Disclaiming any attempt to trespass into the domain which concerned the inner life of the Church, the Prime Minister said he believed that he would carry with him a great deal of clerical as well as lay opinion in declaring that it would be a lost opportunity if such a unique assemblage as that of the Congress were to separate without contributing to that better mutual understanding between men, to the growth of that common corporate sense of oneness, which was the best safeguard of the peace of the world. Mr. Asquith ended by appealing to the Church to continue to fulfil her great mission of not only setting men free, but of binding and holding them together.
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