I regard it as a privilege to have been invited to write about the meeting of the World Council of Churches at Amsterdam in the Scottish Journal of Theology which already in its short life has gained a widespread reputation by the high standard of the articles in it. I went to Amsterdam as the only delegate of the Episcopal Church in Scotland and was fortunate in having with me as alternate Canon N. J. Cockburn whose experience in ecumenical affairs is far greater than my own and to whom I am indebted for useful suggestions on certain points in this essay.