Sermon Preached by the Rt. Rev. H. J. Molony, D.p., in Holy Trinity Cathedral, on February 27, on the text: "The Church, which is His Body," Eph. I, 22,23
The chief result of the Lambeth Conference of 1920 is a new vision of what the Catholic Church should be, and what, by God's grace and guidance, she may become.
The Catholic Church is Christ's body, the instrument by which He now acts in the world, and it should actually be here below "'the blessed company of all fruitful people." The Lambeth Conference of 1920 calls upon all Anglican churchmen and all other Christians who will hear to strive speedily to realize this ideal.
Two hundred and fifty-two bishops from all parts of the world were assembled under the presidency of the Archbishop of Canterbury and spent five weeks in deliberation on the subjects which ave just now of most vital concern. Their resolutions have no formal authority, as the Conference was not a General Synod including the clergy and laity of the Church, but they carry great weight as expressing the deliberate opinions of the leaders of a great church, working in well nigh all lands, and they set before the members of that church the tasks that they should seck to accomplish in the next decade.
I propose this morning briefly to touch on some of the topics of greatest importance.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.