THE REUNION OF THE CHURCHES [To the Editor of the
SPECTATOR.]
Arn,—May I be allowed to write of some features of the " Cheltenham Conference " last week at St. Peter's Hall, Oxford, the general subject being -" Lambeth and Reunion." It was chiefly remarkable for the presence and co-operation of five comparatively young men—the chairman; the Rev. C. M. Chavasse, Principal of St. Peter's Hall ; the Rev: C. Sydney Carter, Principal of the B.C.M. College; Bristol ; the Rev. G. F. Graham-Browne, Principal of 'Wycliffe Hall, Oxford ; the Rev: J. B. S. R. Gibson, Principal of Ridley' Hall; Cambridge ; and the Rev. A. W. Habershon; Principal of Oak Hill College, East Barnet. ' - • I need not go into the findings which will be published this week, except to point to the wonderful unanimity of thought which guided the proceedings of the Conference; and to the stream of Evangelical thought which is flowing in the direction of widening the Lambeth proposals in 1930 so as to make the approaches to what are called the Free Churches of a more practical character. -
I left the Great Ouse at Magdalen with the river at high tide, and if I mistake not, the high tide of the river 'of God's grace is rising everywhere in the direction of greater unity amongst the Churches, wherever and whenever practical steps can be achieved in that direction with salutary effect. Unity in Christ and fellowship in the Spirit in any ease come about wherever God's river of grace flows freely, and the desire-
is becoining very widespread for the consummation of the visible unity of the whole Church.—I am, Sir, &e.,
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