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3- To the Conference of Bishops in the Anglican Communion.
With deep and sincere satisfaction we have received the
resolution adopted by the Conference of Bishops of the Anglican
Communion, holden at Lambeth in London during the summer
1920, wherein this Conference recommends that members of the
Swedish Church, qualified to receive the Sacrament in their own
Church, should be admitted to Holy Communion in the Anglican
Church, as well as that on suitable occasions permission should be
given to Swedish ecclesiastics to give addresses in churches belonging
to the Anglican Communion. That The Lambeth Conference, after
long and thoroughgoing negociations which have taken place in this
matter during recent years, now for its own part has found the
time come for a closer connection between the two churches of
such a kind as from its most important feature might be
characterized as intercommunion, this is to us a source of real joy,
because we see therein a step towards that great goal for which
we pray and strive with you: that the unity which has always
existed and exists between all true disciples of Christ, should be
better realized than hitherto also in external matters, and also
because of the direct and practical importance, which such a
connection must have for the work to which our Church is called, for
the pastoral task which is imposed upon her by the Lord of the
Church even for those of its members who live outside the borders
of their own country, and thus also and particularly for those who
live within the British Empire.
The question of the terms of Communion between the two churches
has not been the object of general discussions and resolutions among
us to the same extent as among you, for reasons which will appear
from the following pages. But from the practice which has been
followed hitherto in this matter by our church, these two principles
might be drawn.
a. To individual members of foreign communions who have
desired more occasionally to take part in Holy Communion in
our Church for the strengthening of their inner life, this right
has been conceded as a duty of charity. A refusal of this right
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