New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-05
Menaced Split in EneIisk
Establishment Unlikely
to Extend to u. s.
DISPUTE IS BETWEEN
HIGH AND LOW CHURCH
Rival Missionary Societies /,
Africa Largely Responsible
for Present Situation.

Episcopal Church clergy I'm New Va.
yesterday talked N one another and /.
readers IN their congregations, betw.,.
services and other duties. about n.
threatened disruption % the Church 4,
England. and some fear was expre.~s
that the controversy might extend 70 n.
Episcopal Church IN America. the rob.
lions OF the two communions being yer,
close.
AS reported. the Church Of England h
in the midst OF high and low chu,A
controversy, because. at recent convsb.
ton I'm Africa, the Bishops Of Momhzu
and Uganda were celebrants ~ the ho'y
communion and invited Metnod!sts. pfe.
byterians and others TO receive, whics
they did. Said Bishop Lloyd yesterday:
when 7 was In England few weeu
since I heard much OF tho case. Tks
Church Missionary Society IL not n.
Church OF England. II Is an unofnc.E
body. Bishops whom IL supports. a. n
the cases OF Uganda and Mombasa ss
not appointed by II. There is divided q.
thority. I do not know that the Bisho2
Of Zanzibar is supported b. the other tn
official society, but I would not 10 sur
prlsed II he were. As for American rnss-
sionaries I'm Japan ever doing what N.
African bishops did. they never have. rts
instance has never arisen. The thing has
never been proposed"
The Rev Arthur II. Judge. Of Q.
Matthews Church. in Central Park Wes.
said conditions on mission fields are %,
what they are az home. As perhaps scrs
others could not, he said. he could spesk
of English stubbornness and CONSERVATISM
al home. He believed n mountain b
being made where only hillock ought !,
be, and that political rancor is AT the bo,
tom of most OF II.
The point made by Bishop Lloyd Is that
missionary work is not done by the
Church Of England itself, but by two IN
official societies. There is continual an.
tagonism between the two organizations
The Church Missionary Society Is u-
tremely low, the Society for the Propasa-
ton OF the Gospel fairly high. DIVIDED
authority does the rest, coupled with con-
servatism. One secretary OF an Episcopal
society, preferrng his name be not used.
said:
at is possible the trouble may extend
across the Atlantic. There Is close rela-
ton between the two communions. Yet
I believe the opinion obtains here that
will not do so. Even should che Engiisa
Church be split in two. / DO rot think
the American one will be. We have the
highs and the lows. but there Is not The
bitterness that obtains there. Besides
the Church in America has been sing1-
larly free for many years OF the wrsns'ts
that have gone on in England Many
have wondered that il should have been
so free.
THE incident strikingly illustrates hos
big a task the Church unity movemenf
has on its hands. There sailed from New
York only this last week three commt
sioners to England, going there on a uni'y
errand. They will find on landing that
they are right in the heart OF disuniv
Curiously, they go at the suggestion q
Episcopal Church leaders here. They are
the Rev. Or. w. II. Roberts. stated CLERK
OF the Presbyterian General Assembly,
the Rev. DR.. Peter -Ainslie, late president
Of the Disciples of Christ National Con-
vention, and the Rev. DR.. Newmaa
Smythe, for many years Yale trustee
a Congregational pastor, who has written
much about unity"