The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 3a
Introduction
Introduction.
In presenting any report for the year just concluded, the Council is conscious it must be one dealing with a period of more than ordinary interest and significance to Church people.
Called into existence for the purpose of "defending the rights of the laity against the encroachments of ecclesiasticism" which were being made at the time of the League's formation, the events of the past year have been such as to affect seriously the League's position and mission.
With a real desire to avoid, wherever possible, reference to persons no longer in our diocese, the Council feels it is absolutely incumbent on it to chronicle a much altered condition of affairs brought about by that very absence.