The General Assembly of the Kirk The facile, often distorting,
gibes at the Churches as showing how Christians love one another by the bitterness of their divisions sound a little foolish after the first week of the session of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. Both the Archbishops of the Church of England and the Bishop of Edinburgh were received with honour. On Friday last the Primate (whose precarious health has so far improved as to allow him to renew his great activity) spoke in the Assembly on behalf of the in- vitation of the Lambeth Conference of 1930 to the Kirk to confer upon the Way to that fuller unity which Christen- dom should manifest to the world. He expressly depre- cated efforts to reach Union by absorption or by sacrifices of autonomy to any " identical system " of Church govern- ment. A motion to confer was passed by a large majority. On Monday the Archbishop of York spoke as Chairman of the Faith and Order Movement for the Reunion of Christianity, and pleaded for the advance towards unity, not of our two Churches only, but of all Christiin Churches. The last Conference of the Movement at Lausanne is to be followed by another in 1937, and Archbishop Temple urged that the whole Church of Christ should gather together the spiritual experience of all communions against secularism.
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