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LAMBETH CONFERENCE.
Pan Anglican Meeting Opens
Today at the Palace Of
the Archbishop of
Canter bury.
TWO HUNDRED DIGNIFIED DIVINE
Programme Of the First Weeks
Work-Hist and Sacred
Pilgrimages.
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| LONDON, June 80. 1Ss7.-The Pan-An-
glican or, as it is officially called, the
Lambeth Conference, began today with a
private devotional service in the Chapel
of Lambeth Palace. the official residence
of the Archbishop of Canterbury. There
| are some two hundred prelates of the
various churches in communion with the
Church of England in attendance, in
| cluding, besides all the Archbishops and
Bishops of the Churches of England.
| Wales. Scotland and Ireland and the
British Colonies in all parts of the world,
the following representing the Protestant
Episcopal Church of the United States:-
The Bishops of Albany, California, Cen
trail Pennsylvania, Colorado, Delaware,
Duluth, Boston Fond du Lac, Georgia,
Indiana, Iowa. Kansas, Kentucky, Lex
ington. Long Island, Los Angeles, Maine,
Marquette, Maryland, Massachusetts,
Michigan, Milwaukee, Minnesota and
Bishop Coadjutor of Minnesota, Missouri,
Nebraska, Newark, New Hampshire New
York. Western New York, North Caro-
lima, Ohio. Pennsylvania, Pittsburg, South
Dakota, Southern Florida Southern ONO
and Bishop Coadjutor of Southern Ohio.
Spokane, Springfield and Bishop Coad-
jutor of Springfield. Tennessee Texas, the
Texas and West Missouri
OF the Canadian Episcopacv there are
in attendance the Archbishop of Ontario
and the Bishops of Algoma, Fredericton
Huron, Montreal, Niagara, Nova Scotia.
Quebec and Toronto; the Archbishop of
Rupertsland and the Bishops of Qu'Ap-
pelle and Saskatchewan. Most of these
American and Canadian prelates, like
their English, Scotch, Welsh and Irish
confreres are attended by their chaplains.
The Archbishops and Bishops did not
wear their robes at the devotional SER
vices today The actual work of the CON
vocation will not begin until next Mon
day, the intervening days being devoted
to preparatory services and excursions
to places memorable in the history of
the Church of England. Tomorrow there
will be an evening service at Westmins-
ter Abbey, at which the Bishop of York
will preach while all the other prelates
attended by their chaplains, will appear
in their robes
On Friday the members of the Con-
vocation will visit Ebbes' Fleet and
scarborough. proceeding to Canterbury
IN the evening and spending the night in
that Cathedral.
Op Saturday, after visit to ST. Mar
tins Church, there will be a special SER
vice in the Cathedral, the Bishops an
pearing in their robes but unattended by
their chaplains
Upon this occasion the Archbishop Of
Canterbury will deliver an address. The
visitors will he entertained at luncheon at
nase
an Eversong service in the Cathedral
after which the Dean of Canterbury will
hold reception at the Deanery. On Sun
day the Archbishop of Armagh, and the
Bishop of Ripon, preach in Canterbury
Cathedral the Bishops of Albany and
Iowa in St. Paups and the Bishops of
Rochester and New York in Westminster
Abbey.
On Monday after the celebration of the
Holy Communion in Westminster Abbey
at O'clock in the morning, the conference
opens at Lambeth Palace at Ii O'Clock.
the Archbishop of Canterbury presiding
and delivering the opening address. This
Will be followed by the discussion of the
first subject on the programme of the
Conference: The Organization of the
Anglican Communion" This has been
divided into four heads, as follows "a
central consultative body introduced by
the Bishops of Jamaica and Tasmania |
"A tribunal of reference" by the Bishops |
of Capetown and Salisbury; "The Rel
lation Of Primates and Metropolitans in |
the Colonies and elsewhere to the See |
of Canterbury by the Bishop of Brechin, |
and ssThe Position and functions of the |
Lambeth Conference by the Bishops Of /
Manchester and Pennsylvania.
Each of the subsequent days of the |
Conference will open with prayers at 1890
A. M. in the Chapel of Lambeth Palace, |
and on each day one or more subjects will |
be discussed these being The Relation |
of Religious Communities within the |
the Bishop of Bloemfontein, Fond du |
Lac, Oxford and Wakefield; Critical |
Study of Holy Scripture" by the Bishops |
of Durham, Adelaide and Michigan;
Foreign Missions under which head is |
the duty of the Church to the |
of Ethnic Religions, Judaism
and Islam; the, development. of native
Bishops and and clergy to missionaryy iissioary
These topics will be in
troduced by the Bishops of Colombo.
South Toxic and Newcastle;
nent of Europe and Elsewhere" will be
introduced by the Bishops of Albany,
and Down; Church Unity in lis
II
The Latin Communion, and other Chris
tian Bodies by the Bishops of Jerusa-
lem, London. Pittsburg and the Arch-
bishop Of Armagh; international Arbi-
by the Bishops of Calcutta New
York and Ripon; THE Office Of the
Church with Respect to Industrial Prob
ems by the Bishops of Hereford WASH
ngton and Christchurch; Additional Ser
vices and Local Adaptation,n by the
Bishops Of Cork, Edinburgh, Ely and
Springfield; 1The Duties of the Church 10
he Colonies.v by the Archbishop Of
and the Bishops of Norwich
md Sydneys Degrees in Divinity" by
he Bishop of Goulburn.
This will bring to a close the first week
if the Conference and from Monday,
fully 12 to Wednesday. July 81, the Con-
'erence will not sit, the time being de-
Ioted to committee work.
The committees to which the various
subjects already enumerated are referred
Will meet in the Church House. Westmins-
er- From Thursday. July %. to Satur-
lay. July q. the Conference win meet
nittees, and on Monday August J. there |
will be a concluding service with the cele-
ration of Holy Communion at St PauPs
at which the Archbishop Of
canterbury will preach