Religion: Lambeth Conference, Ended

The most and right reverend prelates of the Church of England and its affiliates in other countries (including the U. S. Protestant Episcopal Church), after five weeks of secret deliberation in Lambeth Palace, London (TIME, July 14), last week published 75 resolutions which they had agreed upon. Accompanying the resolutions was a surprisingly prosaic encyclical letter by Archbishop Cosmo Gordon Lang of Canterbury.

Some of the resolutions were also unsatisfactory to communicants. The archbishops and bishops, except for advice on marriage, divorce and birth control and recommendation that adherents be permitted to...

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