COLONIAL CHURCH CHRONICLE, Missionary Journal, AND FOREIGN ECCLESIASTICAL REPORTER. 1872. "Christianity is to be considered as a trust deposited with us in behalf JOHN & CHARLES MOZLEY, 6, PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON. THE COLONIAL CHURCH CHRONICLE, Missionary Journal, AND FOREIGN ECCLESIASTICAL REPORTER. JANUARY, 1872. THE PROPOSED SECOND CONFERENCE OF THE BISHOP SELWYN of Lichfield, before leaving the United States to return, via Canada, to England, took occasion, at the "farewell reunion" given in his honour at New York-at which were present, besides many distinguished laymen and presbyters, nine Bishops of the United States-to advocate a topic of the highest importance to the whole of the Anglican Communion. After testifying to the kindly feeling for England which he had everywhere observed, he proceeded —we adopt the report of the Guardian- -as follows: "The second point by which I have been impressed is the unity of the two branches of our beloved Churches. Neither I nor my brother clergymen who have come with me can have the slightest doubt of that. We have joined with you in your General Convention. We have heard those spirited yet temperate debates in which you have discussed the most vital questions which concern the Church's welfare. We have visited you in your homes, and taken part with you in the ministrations of the Church, have been invited to address your congregations in your pulpits, and there is not one respect in which we have not felt, from day to day and from hour to hour, that we are brethren, united in the same Church, joined together with the same bond of charity, the very bond of peace, and of all perfectness.' For this, again, I feel profoundly thankful; I think, also, this is a sign of the good work going on among us. I trust we shall never be rent asunder by what the Prayer for Unity calls our unhappy 6 |