Origin And History Of The Lambeth Conferences Of 1867 And 1878 - With The Official Reports And Resolutions Book

CO N T E N T S . P A R T I. CHAP. 1.-The First Conference, 1867 ... ... page 5 CHAP. 11.-The Second Conference, 1878 ... ... 16 PART 11. DOCUMEN R T E S P , ORTS A , N D RESOLUTIONS, I LLUSTRATING THE HISTOR OF Y T HE CONFERENCE O S F 1867 AND I 878. 1.-Letters from the Canadian Bishops Reply of the Archbishop of Canterbury ... page 32 I I.-Action taken by the Convocation of Canterbury 36 I I I.-Official Programme of Arrangements issued by the Archbishop of Canterbury for the Conference of I 867 ... ... ... ... 37 IV.-Archbishop Longleys Opening Address, Sept. 34, V.-Amended Programme adopted during the Ses-sions ... ... ... ... ... ... 48 V1.-Formal Address to the Faithful from the Bishops attending the Conference of I 867 ... 5 3 VI1.-Latin and Greek Versions of the Address ... 57 V1 I I.-Resolutions formally passed by the Conference 4 Lambeth Confere zces of I 867 and I 878. 1X.-Correspondence with Dean Stanley about the use of Westminster Abbey ... ... page 66 X.-Reports of the Committees appointed by the Conference of 1867 ... ... ... ... 72 XI.-Resolutions of the Conference adopted at the Adjourned Session, Dec. 10, 1867 ... ... 98 XI1.-Addresses from the Canadian and West Indian Houses of Bishops, 1872 and 1873 ... ... 101 XII1.-Correspondence between the Bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States and the Archbishop of Canterbury, 1874 and 1875 ... ... ... .. ... 103 X1V.-Memorandum of the Canadian House of Bishops, 1874 ... ... ... ... ... 110 XV.-Action of the Convocations of Canterbury and York with reference to the proposed Second Conference ... ... ... ... ... 11 I XV1.-Circular Letter of Inquiry addressed by the Archbishop of Canterbury to all the Anglican Bishops. March 28, 1876 ... ... ... 113 XVI1.-Letter of invitation to the Conference of 1878, dated July 10, 1877 ... ... ... ... 115 XVII I.-Formal Letter of the Bishops attending the Conference of 1878 ... ... ... ... 117 X1X.-Latin and Greek Versions of the Letter ... 145 XX.-Official List of the Bishops present at the Con-. . ference of 1878 ... ... ... ... ... 158 XX1.-Order of precedence observed at the Conference. of 1878 ... ... ... ... ... ... 159 XXI1.-Invitations issued for the Conference of I 888 ... 161 N A R R A T I V E . CHAPTER I. ERHAPS it is not too much to say P that a decennial Conference of the bishops of the Anglican Communion, under the presidency of the Archbishop of Canterbury, has now become a recognised part of the organisation of our Church, and it may be interesting to many, at the moment when the third of these Conferences is about to assemble at Lambeth, to recall the history and doings of the earlier gatherings of 1867 and 1878. The first official step in conncxion with the assembling of such a Confereilce was taken, not in England, but in Canada. The notion had, indeed, been in the air for many years both in England and abroad, and the final impulse which brought about a Conference was eminently significant of the changed conditions of the Church. S It arose, strange to say, from the interest awakened in North America by the Church affairs of South Africa. At the Provincial Synod of the Canadian Church, herd on September 20, 1865, it was unanimously agreed, upon the motion of the Bishop of Ontario, to urge upon the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Convocation of his Province that means should be A reference to some of the earlier suggestions on the subject will be found in the Guardian of June 19, 1878, p. 857...Read More