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372
meddelanden och aktstycken
National Church of Sweden’. In the same year was also
published a learned work by another member of the Anglican
Commission, viz., Bishop Mott Williams (then Bishop of Marquette),
on ’The Church of Sweden and the Anglican Communion’.
These two volumes dealt fully with the question of the
succession of Swedish orders, and did much to remove the doubts
previously felt on this subject in some quarters. In the course
of the next year (1911) the Archbishop’s Commission made its
formal report, in which it stated the following conclusions,
arrived at after full consideration of the evidenee laid before it:
— ’(I) That the succession of bishops has been maintained
unbroken by the Church of Sweden, and that it has a true
conception of the episcopal office. .. and (2) that the office of
priest is also rightly conceived as a divinely instituted
instrument for the ministry of Word and Sacraments, and that it has
been in intention handed on throughout the whole history of
the Church of Sweden.
Accepting these conclusions, they based on them a
recommendation that a resolution should be proposed, similar to that
which was adopted by the Lambeth Conference of 1888 in
reference to the Old Catholics of Germany, Austria and
Switzerland, under which members of the National Church of Sweden,
otherwise qualified to receive the Sacrament in their own Church,
might be admitted to Communion in ours. They also suggested
that ’permission might with advantage occasionally be given
to Swedish ecclesiastics to give addresses in our churches,’
and that ’notice should be sent to the Archbishop of Upsala
of important events or appointments within the Church of
England and that we should welcome similar information on his
part.’ — a suggestion which we understand has been already
to some extent acted upon. Further, they said that ’as regards
facilities for the use of churches for marriages, burials, and the
like where Swedish churches are not available, we believe that
concession on this head is within the competence of any
diocesan bishop, and we trust that such facilities may be generally
granted.’
We accept the conclusions arrived at by the learned men
who formed this Commission, on the unbroken succession of
the Episcopate in Sweden, and on the conception on the office
of priest held by that Church; and we recommend to the Con-
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