ABSTRACT
Methodist union was an important achievement in Britain, but only a beginning. Twenty years after Azariah's Lausanne sermon the Church of South India, the most comprehensive union scheme of the twentieth century, was born. For Wesleyans, any scheme of union would need the approval of the Conference in Britain; whereas the Church of India, Burma and Ceylon was autonomous and could, theoretically, act without any reference to authorities outside India. Henry Gulliford and Charles Monahan were successive chairmen of the Committee and from 1934 its Secretary was J. S. M. Hooper, General Secretary of the British and Foreign Bible Society (BFBS) in India, Burma and Ceylon and a late convert to the cause of union. Yet the accomplishment of unions to which Anglicans were party, and the formation of Churches which were members of both the Anglican Communion and the World Methodist Council, was no mean feat and one achieved nowhere else.
