We have, unfortunately, no space to notice the bulk of
the papers read at the Congress, but we must draw attention to the admirable contributions to the subject of " Home Reunion" made by the Bishop of Ripon and Canon Henson. The Bishop declared that he sometimes thought it would be a good thing if all the Churches could for a year pass self-denying ordinances to lay aside all questions which fostered dissension and embittered the heart. Canon Henson's contribution to the subject contained a very striking declaration :—" I am convinced that the obstacle to Home Reunion' does not lie in the general sentiment of English Churchmen ; on the contrary, many circumstances combine to persuade me that the Anglican laity as a whole would eagerly welcome any arrangement which would mitigate the irrational and mischievous denominationalism which now prevails. I believe that, so far from resenting, most religious Anglicans would approve, the opening of our pulpits, under due safe- guards and by lawful authority, to the great spiritual teachers of the other English-speaking Churches, and the establishment of intercommuniou with those non-episcopal Churches which satisfy the conditions of orthodoxy proposed by the Lambeth Conference as long ago as 1888." We cannot at present discuss this most momentous subject or open our columns to its discussion, but we must express our general sympathy with Canon Reason's aims.
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