London, Jan. 22
A report giving the result of the many years of discussion and work of a joint conference, including the Archbishop of York and eleven bishops on the Anglican side, and leading Congregationalists, Baptists and Methodist: on the Free Church side, was made public yesterday and commended to the attention of the clergy and laity of churches by both the Convocation of Canterbury and the Federal Council of Evangelical Free Churches.
The report looks to a reunion of the Church of England and Free Churches in a great united English Church, with perhaps 7,000000 members, in which various denominations might come together without loss of what is specially valuable in their distinctive traditions.
The plan provides for spiritual free-lom with some form of state recognition. It is emphasized, on both the Anglican and Free Church side, that the proposals are of a most tentative character and are published for the consideration of Anglicans and Nonconformists in the hope of furthering he cause of unity, but with the full recognition that the time for negotiations has not yet come.—Wireless hrough Reuter.
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