Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-05
BIC PROBLEM FACED
BY ARCHBISHOP
Administrative Task En-
barked Upon Holds
Three PIanks.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CANTERBURY, England, January S..
The new Archbishop of Canterbury
has embarked on an ambitious admin
istrative policy. Briefly summarized,
the popular Interpretation of his pro-
gram supposes three main planks:
That he will seek some strong CEN
trail authority with power to enforce
the rulings of the church. (This may
only mean giving teeth to the deci-
sions of the ecclesiastical courts, for
which there lately has been strong
reform agitation)
Wants to Unity Churches.
That he will seek to weld the Catho-
lie, Liberal and Evangelical elements
of the Church of England into one
solid group and turn their attention
to spreading the Anglican fait h
throughout the world instead of using
up their energy dissenting with one
another
That he will seek modification of
the union that now exists between
church and state, at least insofar as
the present arrangement gives the
state authority to dictate to the church
in purely ecclesiastical matters, but not
SO far as to embrace actual diSestablish-
ment, which is inSeparable from dis
endowment
Policy Outlined.
His grace does not pass over the
troubles which now beset the Church
of England. He epitomizes them and
his own policy respecting them as fol-
lows:
1.-The mission of the Church of st.
Augustine is no longer to Kent only,
or to the realm of England only, or to
the British Empire only, but to the
world.
'As you thus look out upon the
world you see the field being every
where cleared for one supreme con-
fiict 1t is not between one form of
religion and another. 1t Is between
spiritual religion in any form and a
material civilization claiming to be self
sufficient. AS that civilization ad-
vances, ancient religions crumble and
fall. There is only one religion which
can Withstand it-and not withstand
only, but redeem-enter and cleanse
and claim for God. It is the religion
which appeals not to any one age or
race, but to man himself-the gospel of
the Son of Man.
Freedom Is License"
1.-THE relations of the church and
state which reflected the conditions of
the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
cannot remain unchanged. Some eff
fective principle of authority within the
church itself must be accepted if free
dom is not to become license.
If, during this time of transition
and difficulty any section or party
within the state or the church were to
press its claim to the extreme limit
not only would the unity of the body
be imperiled, but the church would
miss for neutrality-suspicious. for
ever-its chance of fulfilling Gods pur-
pose in England and throughout the
world
While DR.. Lang's utterances are
merely the expression of his own point
of view, his high station in the Angli-
can hierarchy and great influence as
church leader will give them wide
effect. They are, In addition to being
statement of his own policy, an in
depreciation of his own attitude toward
the religious problems of the day. It
is well known that his grace cherishes
the idea of an Anglican community
which shall not be confined to the
British Isles, but which will some day
be embraced by the world at large.