El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-07-29
EP|SCOPAL|ANS
ARE SPLIT Up
Extremists Insist Action
Must Be Taken To Pre-
serve Church Unity.

Some leaders in the Episcopal church.
and some in the entire Anglican COM
munion. are putting forth pessimistic
predictions. IN religious weeklies, in
pamphlets and in public addresses. two
+ classes OF leaders are saying that an
important decision must be made. and
made at once. else there may come IN
time to be no Episcopal church, no
Anglican communion OF sufficient size
and influence to make worth while the
world giving them place and attention.
These leaders are at opposite poles. and
call themselves evanCelcaIs and catho-
lies respectively. Their activity at this
time. in spite OF heat and war. is due
TO the approaching general conven-
ton OF tho Episcopal church al 81
Louis in October. and the Lambeth
conference. made up OF all bishops OF
the Anglican communion Of the
world. which meets in London in
1918
FxtremisIts Keep Up Agitation
The agitation is kept up by the ex-
tremists. and while employing totally
different argument. both sides profess
70 fear danger that the near future
viii see one strong church made up
Of united Protestant bodies. and an
other strong church. Roman and Greek
Catholic together. And AnElicans are
asking what is 10 be their status
Evangelical and Catholic parties are
saying that unless the particular course
prescribed by them be followed epis-
copasy is likely to find itself out IN
the cold
Mission Field Bring Test.
The mission fields are bringing the
test to anglican communions at
home In one field. central Africa. in
a village called Kikiyu. two Anglican
bishops officiated at the Lords sup
per and permitted Protestants to re-
ceive bread and wine from their hands.
The Catholics among the AnElIcans
made charges which stirred the church
Of England. The Lambeth conference
has consultative body. with the
archbishop Of Canterbury at its head
This body issued its Kikiyu decision
two years ago. just s the war came
on, and few paid attention to II.
FnvOr the EynnEeIicaIs.
This decision was that these bishops
in Africa might have done worse
thing. While very guarded. and taking
no advance ground. the consultative
body favored the evangelicals. Now.
without waiting for the war to end.
and with all England in crepe. the
Kikiyu case has broken out. The
moment Europe stops fighting on the
continent, its church is known to be
likely 20 go 10 fighting At home
Both Evangelicals and Catholics say
they want to educate the church. IN
view Of the approaching Lambeth con-
ference.
The question TO be decided Is the at /
titude OF AnElicans toward other {
bodies. The question is asked whether
Episcopalians and church OF England
shall apnroach the church Of Rome
or shall both stand pat2 or shall the
Advances be toward the Protestants3 !
Some favor the first. many favor the i
last and nearly all seem to think that
standing pat means isolation; some
predict extinction as a power in the
world
Controversy in L. :. Similar.
In the United States the controversy. 3
different from the kikiyu in name. is
known to he the same in principle
Here it is whether the Episcopal church /
shall cooperate with the Federal council I
Of churches. representing all PrOtes- !