Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-11


great will be the attendance that only
200 free seats will be available In AL
bert hall, and when the st. Paul meet
ing is held only delegates will be ad-
mitted, and many of these will have to
be content with standing room. With
its manifold interests, its great business
and its large attendance, the confer
ence will cost over $4,000.
This conference will mean more than
the expression of modern missionary
enthusiasm. 1t will show concerted
effort on the part of the entire Anglican
church to handle more intelligently the
problems of new churches in new lands
from a mission point of view, from the
colonial point of view and from the
home point of view. Said the bishop or
Carlisle not long ago: zone of the
surest notes of living religion is that
as it grows older 1t also grows younger.
Always the same at its foundations, 1t
is ever changing its superstructure.
This quality of changelessness ana
change makes the Christian religion to
differ from all other reliSions-Chrlst-
ianity is essentially an historic relig-
ion." 1t is to keep this foundation al
WAYS strong and to build the super
structure to suit the overwhelming
needs of a great and growing people
that the conference meets next week.
1t is a notable fact that this meeting
is held on the anniversary of that his
toric day when King John at Runny-
mede signed the Magma Charta in the
presence of stern and compelling
i.obles who saw that In the instrument
went the proviso that THE Church OF
England shall be free" 1t was after
centuries of mission work that wy
cliffe's Bible came, and when later
wears brought the reformation 1t was
not as the work of Henry VIII, Edward
vi or Elizabeth, but was the outgrowth
of a concerted movement OF free
m-loving. reading and thinking peo-
pie, ready to secure for the church the
freedom that the charter had guaran-
teed. Expansion of the church fol-
lowed expansion of political power
The period of church expansion dates
from that day a little over 300 years
ago when, as the bishop OF London
said in his jamestown address. "A
grain of mustard seed was blown
ashore" in Virginia and the Anglican
church found firm root in new and
fertile soil. From Virginia came the
nations leaders in the political empire
that was later built on this small be-
ginning and men of the Anglican
church took prominent and telling
parts in the political. educational and
social upbuilding.
Today the British empire embraces
are in the home land, the provinces
having more. Australia and New Zea-
land have twenty seven, Asia twenty
four, Canada twenty-three, the West
Indies and South America eight and
Africa eighteen. In the United states
Offspring of Elizabethan England
there are ninety-one dioceses with ar
approximate membership of $4,000
| more than third of these being In
New York and New England. From
the American church there will be
| many speakers, at both the congress
and the meeting of bishops at Lam
beth which follows. Notable among
these will be bishops of southern Vir-
| ginia. Tennessee. Albany. Massachu-
setts. New York. Chicago, Louisiana
Shanghai. Vermont, Rhode Island, Con
| necticut and southern Ohio. and the
bishop coadjutor of Fond du Lac.
The twentieth century marked thu
shifting of the center of gravity of tn,
Anglo-Saxon race from the British
isles to America and to the Englisl
colonies. With the race went thu
Anglican church. for it's mission. ac
cording to the fair-minded bishop o
Stepney, is not national but catho
lie The center of gravity of the Epis
| cona1 church became identical Will