The Church House, Dean's Yard, Westminster, London, S. W. THE BUSINESS HOUSE OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND. President-THE LORD ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY. Vice-Presidents-THE DUKE of westMINSTER, K.G.; THE LORD BISHOP OF LONDON. Bankers-Messrs. COCKS, BIDDULPH & Co., 43, Charing Cross, S. W. Telephone No. 3219. Telegraphic Address-"PANANGLIC," LONDON. THE PERMANENT BUILDINGS. The Council have decided to proceed at once with the erection of the first portion of the permanent building, viz. :-The Great Hall, with offices, &c., attached to it, AND THE WORK HAS NOW BEEN COMMENCED. The cost will be in round figures about £40,000, towards which about £30,000 have been subscribed or promised. TEN THOUSAND POUNDS are needed at once to enable the Council to complete this part of the scheme free from debt and without delay. THE PURPOSES OF THE CHURCH HOUSE. (1) The Church House is intended to be the "Business House" and official "Headquarters" of the Church of England. It forms a centre which is in touch with Church work in every diocese and parish, and from which new philanthropic and religious movements may emanate, and round which they may easily group them selves. (2) It will afford accommodation for the meetings of Convocation and the House of Laymen, and also for the various committees in which the main work of Convocation is done. A Hall, capable of seating 1,200 people or more, is now being erected for great Church meetings. (3) It centralizes and strengthens Church work and Church organization by providing suitable offices for, or having telephonic communication with, the numerous Church Societies which are now disconnected and scattered all over London. (4) It strengthens the union between the Church at home and the Church abroad, and forms a Home to which English-speaking Churchmen from all parts of the world may turn when they come back to this land. At the Church House they can leave their addresses, and to it they can have their letters sent. (5) It is an information bureau-a centre to which people may go for information on every matter concerning the Church-its history, its work, its property, and its laws. (6) There is a valuable Reference Library, which, it is hoped, will eventually contain all the best works in Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. (7) Members of the Corporation have free use of the Library, Reading Room, Writing Room, &c. CONDITIONS OF MEMBERSHIP. Membership of the Corporation may be acquired by persons of either sex (being members of the Church of England or of any Church in full communion therewith) by an Annual Subscription of at least One Guinea; Life Membership by a Donation in one sum of at least Ten Guineas. Communications should be addressed to the Secretary, SYDNEY W. FLAMANK, Esq., Church House, Dean's Yard, Westminster, S. W.; or to the Organizing Secretary, the Rev. J. A. BETTS, Church House, Dean's Yard, Westminster, S. W. PREFACE. NLY a few words are necessary by way of introduction to the papers, addresses, and speeches delivered at the Thirty-second Meeting of the Church Congress, held at Folkestone, and herein published. Each paper, address, or speech, has (with two or three exceptions) been revised by its author, and the whole has undergone careful scrutiny at the hands of the Official Reporter and the Editor. The responsible and onerous work of editing the Official Report has, for the eleventh year in succession, been entrusted to me. I hope it has been done to the satisfaction of the Congress Committee and the subscribers. The revision of nearly 700 pages of closely printed matter within three weeks, or thereabouts, in the midst of the busy working life of an incumbent of a parish of over 8,000 souls, is no light matter. But what under less favourable conditions would be an impossible task, has been rendered, not possible only, but agreeable, by the Publishers, Messrs. Bemrose and Sons, Limited, whose most careful and accurate work has more than lightened, has reduced to a minimum, my own labours. I am not less indebted to Mr. C. Basil Cooke, the Official Reporter, whose practised hand and competent staff have furnished the Publishers with full and correct copy of all speeches. My acknowledgments are also due to the readers and speakers, who have given us much assistance particularly by their promptitude, otherwise the publication of the Report must have been delayed. One or two knotty questions have arisen during the progress of these pages through the Press. For example, a claim to withhold a paper, prepared and read on the invitation of the Subjects' Committee, from publication in the Official Report, has been satisfactorily dealt with. The Editor's decision was 334112 с adverse to the claim, and after some correspondence it was courteously and generously accepted by the writer. Reports of meetings at Dover and Shorncliffe, though arranged by the Congress Committee and held in connection with the Congress, are not included in the Report. In this matter we have followed the practice of former years. An unwilling and unavoidable absence from the Folkestone Congress disqualifies me from commenting upon the special features of this year's meeting. I conclude, therefore, by commending to the blessing of Almighty God the Church Congress of this year, and the following account of its proceedings. C. DUNKLEY, EDITOR. S. Mary's Vicarage, 7th November, 1892. |