News of the Week
The Lambeth Conference TOTE have written in our first leading article a general
review of the conclusions reached at the Lambeth Conference. At the end of last week the Archbishops and Bishops issued to the public an Encyclical Letter which accompanied seventy-five Resolutions of the Conference. These Resolutions were based upon valuable and search- ing reports made to the whole Conference by Committees. The " unhappy divisions " in the Church have been so vigorously emphasized of late years that it will come as a surprise to many, and we hope to all as a proof of the Divine blessing widely invoked upon these labours, that the Resolutions were, with only a single exception, unani- mous. That is to our minds the most hopeful sign of all and that which best enables us to respond to the bidding of the Conference, sursum corda! This unanimity has not been obtained by slurring over difficulties, nor by avoiding subjects that offered opportunities for friction. Although this seventh Conference took the idea of the Church's Witness to be the basis of their deliberations, they used it as a thread with which they wove the threads of all the most important subjects of the day. The subject upon which unanimity was least expected was that of the union of the 'non-Roman Churches in South India. Yet it was found there, too. The Bishops say : . " We express to our brethren in India our strong desire that,
as soon as the negotiationi are successfully completed, the venture should be made and the union inaugurated."
