The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-14
Largest Meeting of Its
 Kind Ever Held.
FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD
Four Quarters of The World senda Best Workers to the Great An- Ieiean Conferenee which
 wen be Held in London

the Anglican Church are everywhere In the great metropolis of the British l Empire. For weeks they habe been foregathering from every quarter of the world with his titled brother from Korea while the Bishops of Lebombo and Lfkoma, in Central Africa, discuss the welfare of their common cause l with the Bishops of Mid-China and Central Pennsylvania.
 There never has been such repres- sntative gathering of the Enslish ferences of the Church of Rome. wonderful though they have been, have never brought face to face the four quarters of the globe tn such numbers as will be present when the Pan-Angiican Congress opens on ! Monday next.
 Two hundred and forty bishops win be in attendance. Dioeeses the world | over have each been allowed six dele- l gates. and nearly all have sent their
 representatives to thls most wonderful
 of Church gatherings. For some weeks the Archbishops of Cape Town, Bris-
 bane, Sydney. Melbourne and the West
 Indies have been here. The Bishops of 1 Auckland, Colombia, Goulborn, Bum 1 bury. Carpentaria, the Gold Coast, Koe- watin, Lebombo, North oueensland.
 Nova Scotia, Rangoon. Northampton,
 Singapore. Tranancore and Cochin,
 Uganda, Western Equatorial Africa Victoria. Waiapu and Zululand all know
 each other by sight now and are
 rapidly gaining more than speaking
 acquaintance for they meet almost
 daily to compare notes as to the work
 they are trying to do with their
 strange peoples.
 The Bishop of Calcutta, who has just
 arrived. speaks fifteen Indian dialects
 sud with him came two black bishops
 from West African, full of enthusiasm
 for the great work they are doing and
 of which they hope to do stili more.
 Already over 1000 delegates from
 some 200 dioceses have reported, and
 on the way. All London has been laid American contingent having but just
 arrived. while othors are known to be
 on the way. All London has been Had
 open for them. There has probably
 never been such a warm welcome as
 for these men and women of the Elm
 pire's Established Church The Bis hop of London has set apart the A
 chambers of Putnam Palace as his part
 of the entsrtainm b1t of these notables
 from over the seas, and the metropolis
 as whole is doing just as well. The } rector of the famous city church of } St. Mary-le'Bow Rev. A. N. Hutton, has invited each of the Bishops of the Episcopal Church in the United States
 to occupy the pulpit at a midday ser- } vice, and already several have fixed : dates.
 } Membership in the congress Is limited i, to 1900. but there will be upward of 7 7300 persons present including loymen and women delegates to whom unfor- ] tunately all the privileges of the great 7 gathering cannot be extended because of lack of space. The first 5000
 tickets were good for ali meetings.
 but the next 5000 allowed no admission to the thanksgiving service at St.
 Paul,s. the most important of all the
 gatherings arranged for the congress.
 It will be the closing service the one ] when the thank offering of the whole
 world will be made. and there is an assurance that 1t will amount to no less
 than s5,000,000., That was the sum
 aimed at when the proposition was
 first taken up and. although the re-
 turns have not been made with sum-
 cient dednlteness as yet to give the
 exact figures. the amount can be con-
 sidered as raised, and 1t will be for
 the congress to say how 1t shall be i, divided. It seems probable that 1t
 will be turned over to a special com mlttse without recommendation; but 1t has been suggested that some portion of It ought to be devoted to clergy
 men who have for years been striv- ing in foreign lands. without proper compensation for the hardships they have been forced to endure patiently.
 The congress has been divided Into | seven SDGLlOuH, WlACn W1Al COnBlQer
 sectionA.-"The Church and Human Society,"" Albert Hall.
 |: Section B-"Christian Truth and other Intellectual Forces. Kensington Town Hall.
 , Holborn Town Hall for. three days and Kinks Hall, Holbern Restaurant. for two days.
 Section D.-,The church's Mission in
 Non-Chr rlstian Lands" two parallel ses-
 sions each day at caxton Large Hall. Section E.-"The Church's Missions in Christendom." Hoare Memorial Hall of the Church House.
 Section F.--"The Anglican Commun-
 ion." large hall of the Church House Section G.-"rhe Church's Duty to the
 Young" St. Johns Institute, Tuition
 street, Westminster.
 The following are q few of the special subjects of the papers to be read.
 "sanctity of Marriage" .srhe Drink Traffic," Gambling and Gambling Methods" "Luxury," "Companles ana polies and Trusts" "rhe Duty of the Clergy to Social Science" Dramatic Literature" "Journalism." '@The Min-
 istry and Laymen." Training for Holy Orders" ''The Reality of Inspi-
 ration" and '"rhe Relations Between 4~OS@A CHNA Seh~~ ~-N eAAN ~NAAAAS@A AVtA- munion."
 Each paper win be the work of an authority on the subject, and the dis
 cussions are likely to be of the utmost value, as eiiciting the opinions of the rank and file of Church men ana worn-
 en on these and numerous other urgent
 questiona.
 , Women's day has been set for Juno 2 16, when there will be conferences all day in Caxton Hall and on the same
 day in the afternoon there will be a
 meeting for women only at Queens
 Hall. For Sunday, June 2t, there will be a meeting for men only in Albert i Hall. Tn addition to these meetings
 there win be many in historic places
 notably the festival of St Alban, the pro-martyr of English Christianity, in the Abbey Church bearing his name; ; another on the island of Ltndisfarne, the birthplace of Northumbrian Christi
 ianity; and still another in Hexham
 Abbey Church. which has recently been 2 restored at great expense.
 : On the Sunday after the Congress, . some 120 bishops will descend on 9he
 diocese of Rochester and with the possi-
 bIe exception of half dozen churches.
 every pulpit in the diocese win be ocs
 cupied on that day by one of the digni- . l taries of the Anglican Church. Before n all the visitors have started homo, there e Is to be an immense missionary demon- Q l etratiOn in Guild Hall. Throughout the