(By an Anglican Delegate)
AMERICAN institutional Protestantism has been predominant at Stockholm. The British were made up of an amalgam, in which Free Churchmen and Anglicans who sympathize with, or are silent before, undenominationalism more than predominated. . .
Personally, I have no doubt as to the Conference having been a great and a good thing. . . Yet it seemed to me capable of becoming the nursery of a new pan-Protestantism. . . This impression was strengthened by two things. The first was the frequent application of the term “Œcumenical” to the Conference. Bearing in mind the age-long technical usage of the term as signifying unity of polity as well as of dogma throughout one visible Church, I cannot but feel anxious as to what its application to a Conference largely composed of delegates from Churches which repudiate the things usually implied by “Œcumenical” may portend.
Lastly, I was perturbed as to what may be the effect of the communion of many Anglicans at the High Mass in the Engelbrekt Kyrk on Sunday, August 22. By the decision of the Lambeth Conference of 1920, we are in communion with the Swedish Church. But the Swedish Church is in communion with the other three Scandinavian Churches, who have no episcopal orders, and on this occasion welcomed the members of the Conference generally to the Sacrament. The implicit invitation was accepted by many hundreds, including Anglican bishops, as well as Free Churchmen. Indeed, I understand that some of those who communicated were unbaptized. . .
