General Observance of Lent
Under the heading, “General Observance of Lent,” the New York Sun gave in a recent issue this statement of the attitude now assumed by Protestant bodies toward this Catholic fast: “Fourteen missionary societies, representing every Protestant religious body in the United States and Canada, have issued from their combined office in this city a common prayer service and topics for a week of prayer, beginning next Sunday, Palm Sunday, and continuing until Easter day. Quakers, Disciples of Christ, Baptists, and Congregationalists uniting with Lutherans and Episcopalians in observance of holy week and in the use of printed prayers is new for the first time this Lent, and is regarded as a step toward Protestant unity.”