The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-08
ESSENTIAL PARTS
 OF CHURCH FAITH
Lambeth Conference Issues An
 lEncycIicaI
PRIME BASIS OF RELIGION
Resolutions Passed By the Bishops Ap- peal for More Religious Teaching and for More Men To Take
 Up the Ministry.

London, August 7.-An encyclical emb odying the result of the Lambeth conference will be issued from Lamb eth palace tonight It sho hows that the dis cussions of the PAS bishops composing the conference were based on the re- ports of comittees appointed to con sider the various subjects The con- ference lasted from July 27 to August 5. Excepting a few instances no inti- nation as to whether the S6 resolutions adopted by the conference were on sub jects of wide differences of opinion or not. Among the resolutions passed were the following;
 "In view of the tendencies widely shown in the writings of the present day the conferences place on record the conviction that the historical facts stated in the creeds are essential parts of the faith of the church.
 The serious decline in the number of candidates for the ministry is de- plored. and parents are urged to dedi- cate sons to the ministry and churches to provide funds for the training of candidates. The conferences resolved also that the purely educational sys- tems are educationally well as nor ally unsound and that no teaching can be regarded as adequate unless it be religious teaching which is limited to historical information and moral cul- ture"
 Interesting to the United States is the following resolution:
 All races and peoples, whatever tn cir language and condition must be welded into one body and the organization of different races living side by side into separate or independent churches on the basis of race or color i5 not con sstent with the vital and essential principles of the unity of Christ's church."
 On the divorce question the resolu- tions of 1888 were reaffrmed and tho influence of good women was invoked, ito remedy the evils which have grown up from the creation of facilities for divorce.
 By a vote of S7 to S4 the conference re- solved that 1t was undesirable that the innocent party to a divorce for adultery
  remarriage It denounced also the grow ing practice of the artificial restriction of the family.
 Socialism took up much of the bishops attention. The conference recognized the ideals of brotherhood which underlie this democratic movement, and 1t called upon the church to show sympathy for the movement insofar as 1t strives to procure for all just treatment and a real oppor- tunity to live true human lives.
 The congress resolved that the social mission and the social principles of Chris tianity should be given more prominence in the teachings of the church, and it impresses upon churchmen that property is trust held for the benefit of the com- munity.
 The movements for peace and for the abatement of opium traffic are commend ed, and the circular says that steps have been taken by the appointment of com mittees for closer relations with the orth- odox church of the east. The archbishop of Canterbury in the encyclical dwells upon the striking re- vival of missionary zeal and the testimony of pan-anglican to the unity, of the church and it's eagerness to assist in all species of useful work. The archbishop says the solution of racial problems is the despair of the statesman, and that 1t is for the church to face the perplexities which daunt the civil rulers.