The South Indian Church The soundest comment on the discussions,
in the columns of The Times and elsewhere, on the Church Union movement in South India is Canon Streeter's blunt declaration, in reply to some of his Oxford colleagues, that the Western canonists and Eastern theologians of long ago are not to be invoked as judges in a case which corresponds to nothing in their experience. The plain fact is that Christianity is making headway in India, and that, in the belief of the Protestant missionaries and the Indian Christian leaders, such as the Bishops who were recently welcomed here, and the Indian Presbyterians and Baptists, a union of their churches id South India is not merely essential to the prosperity of their work, but the proper and natural translation into practice of the common gospel they all have been preaching. It is a develop- ment immensely interesting, immensely important and
immensely stimulating. Many Anglo-Catholics would find it hard to identify themselves with such a movement in this country, but it is not too much to ask them to let the South Indian development work itself out unhindered.
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