The Proposed Religious Trust
But, stronger still, is the following appeal for church union, from the Philadelphia Press: “If the trust succeeds in business life, why can not it succeed in the domain of religion? If a half-dozen railroads or manufacturers by combining can perform a better service, and for less money and with less effort, and so sell their product at a cheaper rate, why can not two or five or all the denominations combine, and do the same or a greater amount of work, and at a less expenditure of time, money, and effort? In short, why should there not be a religious trust which would end the waste of effort and the reduplication of work and the consequent loss in results now so conspicuous in church life?” What is the Church of Rome, but just such a religious trust as is here proposed? Rome would like nothing better than to have this scheme succeed.