Religious Progress in America
By Editor
"Religious Progress in America; Progress and Achievements of 100 Years," by Samuel Nathan Church, is an address delivered before the Centennial Convention of the Christian Church at Carnegie Music Hall, Pittsburg, Pa., Oct. 16, 1909. It really shows the progress which has been made by the Christian denomination since Thomas Campbell, Alexander Campbell, and others who founded the church. Mr. Church takes rather broader views than do some of that denomination in stating that there is practically no vital or substantial thing in which that denomination differs from the Methodist, the Congregational, the Baptist, the Presbyterian, the Episcopalian. He emphatically says, "There is not one vital or substantial difference." He takes this as evidence that a practical Christian union has already arrived. He believes that there is far greater progress before us; and yet it seems to us that he has missed the very secret of true unity, and that is absolute loyalty to the Word of God.