S VI THE KIKUYU CONFERENCE INCE the foregoing pages were written, an incident has occurred which has excited much discussion throughout the ecclesiastical world, and which bearing, as it does, directly upon the point at issue, affords a yet more profitable illustration of thetruth of our argument. Now comes the Bishop of Zanzibar, after fifteen years of missionary work in the Ministry of the Church of England, to inquire where Ecclesia Anglicana stands upon certain fundamental matters of doctrine. This query at the very beginning of his career as a student of theology, might be natural enough, but at this late date, after years of service in the Church of England, and in the honored position of a Bishop of that Communion, is, to say the least, a little surprising. Yet so it is. The entire scope of his inquiries covers, indeed, a number of matters with which we are not here concerned; matters relating principally to certain recent developments of Modernism. When, however, he comes to touch upon the action of two of his brother Bishops, at the Kikuyu Conference, with regard to a proposed scheme of federation with non-episcopal Churches, |