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PATER PRIBILLA UND DIF. ÖKUMENISCHE ERWECKUNG
I I
templation and meditation, and that we of the West represent
the active side of Christianity. But the clear message of wisdom
and guidance as regards the relation between Life and Work
and Faith and Order has come from the Orthodox Church.
First, in the Encyclical of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of 1920
which urges fellowship and co-operation in the works of Christian
Love and Righteousness. Secondly at Lausanne by our Orthodox
brethren who emphasized the principles of that pastoral letter.
The Christian communities must draw nearer to each other in
corporate deliberation and action, trusting in God through Jesus
Christ. The Orthodox delegation at Lausanne declared
unani-mously: ’Brethren, ön receiving the invitation of the Organizing
Committee of the World Conference ön Faith and Order seven
years ago, the Orthodox Church answered readily by sending
representatives from her particular Orthodox Churches to the
preliminary Conference in 1920 at Geneva. That delegation of
the Orthodox Church put before the Conference a united
declara-tion in general terms of the teaching of their Church in the
matter of Faith and Order and at its conclusion recommended,
that before any discussion of the reunion of the Churches in
Faith and Order, a League of Churches should bc established
for their mutual co-operation in regard to the social and moral
principles of Christendom.
’In consequence, while we, the undersigned Orthodox
representatives, must refrain from agreeing to any Reports other than
that upon the Message of the Church, which we accept and are
ready to vote upon, we désiré to declare that in our judgment
the most which we can now do is to enter into co-operation
with other Churches in the social and moral sphere ön a basis
of Christian love.
’In making it piain that we have arrived at our decision
only in obedience to the dictates of our conscience, we beg to
assure the Conference, that we have derived much comfort here
from the experience that, although divided by dogmatic
diffe-rences, we are one with our brethren here in faith in our Lörd
and Saviour Jesus Christ. Declaring that in the future we shall
not cease to devote ourselves to labour for the closer approach
of the Churches, we add that we shall pray to God without
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