

Thanet* the spot where St. Augustine is sn 

 hav* landed when he went to England under in- 

 direction of Pope Gregory to preach the Gtj 

 the ihen heathen people. A service was h. 

 the cross erected by the lale l^-rd (iraimlh- IP 

 jsjsjnrr of St. Augustine* simple memorial of 

 gmy M..IU- bearing a Unn h 



forth t:.- f*-i --f >' ^I-T 



they 



bv toe trustees of the castle, ami 

 nh nary Roman remains, o n July 



terbury 

 an addrest of welcome by Arch. 



>ftrr which ii xi-lt was paid t 



ippuaed to be the oldest parish in 

 England and to have been the place of worship at- 

 tended b/ Queen Bertha, wife of KM - Kthelbert. 

 I th* tun.- of the con .gustine. The 



words rhanied by Augustine and his party as they 

 entered Canterbury were sung as an anthem by the 

 choir. Another service was held at the cathedral. 



was attended upon invitation by repn- 

 tives of nonconformist bodies and civil officers. 



The regular sessions of the conference were be- 

 gun in Lambeth Palace, July :. and were continued 

 01 general meetings till the loth, when they were 

 suspended, in order to gi\e the committee* oppor- 

 tunity to in.-et and consider the matters presented 

 t. them, till July '21. At these general mee 

 papers were presented and formally di-eu--. .; : < >n 

 the Organi/jtt ion cf the Anglican Communion 

 asaCentral Consultative Body; (b) a Tribunal . ; 

 erence: (r the Relation of the Primates and Metro- 

 politans in the ( olonies and elsewhere to the See of 

 rburv; /ithe Portion and Functions of the 

 I jambeth Conference ": "The Relation of Religious 

 Communities within the Church to the K pi scop. 



Critical Study of the Holy Scriptun 

 sign Missions (a)*the Duties of the Church t<> the 



followers of (I) Ethnic He .lu.laiMii. 1 1 1 h 



Islam;(6)I)evelopment of Native Church. 



lation of Miasionarv Bishops ami Clergy to Mi-i.,n- 



ary Societies ": M Bef ormation M>\- M the 



Europe and Elsewhere"; "Church 



hurches of the 



Rest; (6) to the Latin Communion; (r) to other 

 Christian Bodies : -TheOflice of the church with 

 Respect to h.. In-trial Problems M) the I'unn- 

 ployefl ; (6) Industrial Co-operat in ' . I i.-.-n-es in 

 birin. : iitiomilServi, . d Adapta- 



tion of the Prayer IJook." A fraternal message was 

 received from the General Asx-ml.lv of the Cimrch 

 tland. As in accordance with the invariable 

 rale of the conference no corporate answer could 

 be returns! to this address, the Ar -hlii>h<ip of Can- 

 terbury undertook, with the approval of the con- 

 ference, himself to write expressing appreciation of 

 the brotherly me stage. A special reception was 

 giren the bishops by her Majesty the i^u-.n. at 

 Windsor. July 18. 



The bishops attending th< Umbeth Conference 

 met again at Lambeth, July -2'2. to receive and 

 - r -.; rts of the various 4 ommitt i whi.-h 

 hal bwn sitting at the Church House and to h 

 formal resolutions upon them. A memorial n--'lu- 

 tionof the late Archbishop Benson i.iiry 



was adopted, in which mention was made of the 

 fact that -up to the latest m bfa life his 



thoughts were given to the defense and maintei 

 of the principles of the Ch 

 .t a break an 



;~ 



anywhere u> our orders, sacran 



creeds, ecriptares, spiritual irift*. in all that 

 pacts and frames the holiness of the catholir and 

 apostolic Church of the ages/ These were his last 

 -. written just before he passed, in the act and 

 attitude of worship, after the early MIC] 

 through the confession and under the very 



ance of the absolution, to receive the seal of divine 

 r and forgiveness." 



Th- : the con: reo to the 



public in the forms of an encyclical lett-r reviewing 

 the whole; of : jti-n^ f.. r which th- 



|.o||-ille,anil the trliorof \\hirh 



-.1 ; and the reports ,,f 

 - \\hirh. it is explained, rcpn-riit the 

 mind of the confcicm in BQ far only .. 



niied or adopted in the resolutions, T 



tier, following the course of tin- P 

 ti.n> in a he Mibjt ' 



icni|.. . in Itoth of which 11 is 



urged that the n 



tn>l should lie made most prominent; theii 

 and sanctity of marriage; industrial proldo 

 which the brotherhood of man should U- iv-ai.hd : 

 duty to the poor: and international ai 

 .i-tieal .subj.-cjs iwhich are th- 



1 in the resolutiiinsi. the iir-t is t|,, 

 ti.in of the Anglican communion, with 

 for -trady and rapid inteiviii 



hes for the de\clopment of unity of feeling: 



nil roiisiiliative body, to sii]i|.lv' in format ion 

 and advicr. but without <.therthan moral authority, 

 under charge of the Archbishop of ( 'anterbnr\ 

 the formation of provinces with archbishops, SO 

 that no bishop should be left to act absolutely alone. 



ionj communii -mended in a gnu-nil 



way as capable of rendering grea' to the 



Church, b. kOWlsdflM to need more regula- 



tion. The critical study of the liible by coiii| 

 scholarship is st rongly commended IB essential to 

 t he maintenance in t he Church of a healt hy fait h. 

 The I, should not be tam- 



pered with in matters of doctrine, but can not pos- 

 sibly provide for all needs i:. nation of 

 local circumstances, and a limited discretion is 

 .mended to be given to local bishops to make 

 provision for such emergencies. The n. 

 increased facilities for theological study in colonies 

 and dependencies is insisted upon, in order that 

 preachers may be properly armed for the lef. 

 the Church and its doctrines. Christian care of 

 and the defense of native races f r ,, m de- 

 morali/.ing influences are urged. The lettc 



I the opening of correspondence with the 

 Churches of the Kasj : the cultivation of friendly 

 relations with the Moravians and with the Scandi- 

 navian Church : the emphasis ,,f the divine pu 

 of visible unity among Christ i.-r 

 latiou; advises the appointment of commit)' 

 bishops everywhere to promote united prayrand 

 mutual co i between representatives of dif- 



ferent Christian bodies; and recogni/esp 

 ore of the Old Catholics and other I- 

 escape from the usurped authority of 

 Home." Although "such movements may - 



end in quitting not meivlv the Roman obedi- 



but even the Catholic Church itself, and sur- 

 rendering the great doctrine of the sacramet 



Is, . . .we 



must not anticipate that they will until 



they i na are 



to the conditions to le met in 



dealing with tie hthe Mohammedans, and 



with the other religions. Wnile the Jewish, Moham- 

 i.and the other n-li_ limited to have 



some good dewn ii._ 



to be cautions le-t that go.,d. >uch as [| 



exaggerated as to lead us to allow that any purified 



form of any om- of them can even in any way be a 



Mite for 1 1 Qospel is not merely 



velation of the highest morality: it reveals to 



os also the lore -.d contains the 



promise of that ;i by him by which alone 



' moral life is possible in man." While 



