Word: cadman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Northern Presbyterians joined (TIME, June 24), and this week in Cleveland the Congregational Christian Churches (membership: 1,342,000) and the Evangelical and Reformed Church (membership: 775,000) merged to become the United Church of Christ. The merger has been 17 years in the making. Some Congregationalists, e.g., the Cadman Memorial Church in Brooklyn, were so chary of losing their precious local autonomy in the merger with the E. & R. presbytery system that they sued to prevent the union, but lost. Says the Rev. Dr. James E. Wagner, president of the Evangelical and Reformed Church: "In marriage or in merger...
...have talked about a merger with the Evangelical & Reformed Church (membership: 800,000). But Congregationalists are by definition devoted to the principle of parish autonomy; some of them fear that this principle would be watered down in any union. In 1949 the members of Brooklyn's Cadman Memorial Church went to court over the merger problem, arguing that individual congregations could not be forced to abide by a general church decision. Cadman Memorial is now trying to get the New York state court of appeals to uphold an injunction against a merger...
Promptly the Rev. James W. Fifield of Los Angeles' 4,200-member First Congregational Church (largest Congregational church in the U.S.) organized a fight against the council's ruling. As a test, the Cadman Memorial Church in Brooklyn, N.Y. filed suit, and for 23 court days and 3,000 pages of testimony Justice Stein brink listened to the subdued wrangling of ministerial witnesses...
Said stunned Moderator Kenyon: "We will await the formal writing of the judgment before determining our future course." Crowed victorious Pastor Arthur Acy Rouner of Cadman Memorial: "Our idea in the beginning was to save Congregationalism. We feel we have done that...