p. 2 | Opposition to Pan-Protestant Congress at Panama

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 18, 1915

Opposition to Pan-Protestant Congress at Panama

THE reason for the opposition of some of the High Church members of the Protestant Episcopal Board of Missions to the plan of sending delegates to the Pan-Protestant Congress at Panama is indicated in the following extract from the New York Times of October 28:—

The delegates who are to visit Panama are to pay their own expenses, and are to do nothing but confer with others at the congress; but the opponents of the project feel strongly that even that limited participation endangers church unity, and widens the gulf between Protestants and Catholics.

They still insist that a slight has been put on the see of Rome, whose work for four centuries in South American countries, they think, should be considered in a conciliatory spirit.

It is possible that a serious situation may yet arise in the next General Conference of the Episcopal Church, to which it is expected that the High Church party will make an appeal.