| Description | Elizabeth Taylor Cadbury was unable to attend the Annual Conference of the National Free Church Council held in Llandrindod in March 1926 owing to illness. However, she sent this typescript to be read in her absence, noting that she looked forward to the 1927 conference of the Council which would be held in Birmingham.
Taylor Cadbury's address provides an account of events during her year as President of the National Free Church Council (Federal Council of the Free Churches), remarking on her visits to different federations and churches across the country. Taylor Cadbury also comments on her international work as President of the Council, referring particularly to her visit to Washington in the United States of America where she had been given 'a private interview with President Coolidge' and had discussed 'the influence of Christianity in World Politics'.
Taylor Cadbury comments on the many articles for journals and newspapers which she had written during her year as President. She also refers to the two Summer Schools which she had held at Woodbrooke Quaker College, supported by her friend and colleague Herbert George Wood. Taylor Cadbury concludes her address by noting that her successor as President of the National Free Church Council would be the Reverend Elvet Lewis. |