p. 6 | Union of Churches

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 3, 1910

Union of Churches

DEFINITE moves are being made toward union between the Congregational and Episcopal churches in this country. The last conference of bishops of the Episcopal Church expressed the wish that conferences might be arranged with representatives of other Christian bodies looking toward union. A committee was appointed at the Congregational conference in 1908 to consider the matter and expedite the union. That committee, at the last Congregational conference, reported progress, and was enlarged and continued. One Episcopal bishop has gone so far as to declare that the Episcopal Church would be willing to give up its thirty-nine articles of religion and drop its name to bring about union. It is felt by those who are considering the matter that if these two bodies are able to unite under one general management, it will open the way for other religious bodies to do the same. Once the movement is well started, it is not difficult to see where it will end, and who will stand at the head of the great organization at last when all are united in one body save those only whose distinguishing characteristics are, keeping “the commandments of God” and having “the testimony of Jesus.”