ligion in public or private schools.
Unfortunately, Mr. Eliot confessed,
pressure of other work had pre–
vented him from personally follow–
ing the developments in this field
during the last year so that he did
not feel qualified to discuss it any
further.
But there were other notable
achievements on the list of Mr.
Eliot's credentials for the evening.
Besides serving as a Vicar's War–
den in Kensington, he was also a
member of the Advisory Commit–
tee to the Editorial Board of the
Christian News Letter.
Through
this affiliation he had some contact
with the ecumenical movement. He
was somewhat reluctant to enlarge
upon this experience; but it ap–
peared to those who were at best
interested amateurs in these highly
specialized matters that Mr. Eliot
did not set too high a store by the
ecumenical movement as an instru–
ment of Christian restoration.
Those who were least dogmatic <:>n
theological grounds were most ex–
treme in embracing the ecumenical
idea; thus the religious principles
behind the idea did not measure
up to the zeal of the protagonists
for the idea.
The purity of the "Catholic" tra–
dition and orientation of the
Church of England was a matter
of serious, general concern to Mr.
Eliot. This was also evident from
the controversy over the plans for
a new cathedral at Coventry.
There were two such plans: one
which proposed the erection of a
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