Word: churches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Efforts will be made to establish cooperation and union between existing denominational church union boards, and to prepare sample constitutions to be considered at future meetings...
...this conference went many a famed church-unionist and several non-unionists. Among famed churchmen present were Dr. Joseph Ross Stevenson. President of Princeton Theological Seminary; Yale's Divinity Dean Luther Allan Weigle; Dr. Samuel McCrea Cavert, General Secretary of the Federal Council of Churches; Dr. Daniel Alfred Poling, editor-in-chief of the Christian Herald; Dr. William Adams Brown, Vice President of Union Theological Seminary, who recently married Col. Lindbergh and Miss Anne Morrow; Bishop James Cannon Jr.; Dr. Samuel Parkes Cadman. Outstanding among laymen were Swarthmore's Philosopher-Professor Jesse Herman Holmes and President Frank...
...conference was designed to make the layman articulate in church affairs, was founded on the belief that "there is much to be gained in the realm of religious progress by free discussion among religious leaders of all denominations of the common problems that confront them. The perils that face Christianity have no regard for denominational lines. The problems that most vitally confront Christians are nonsectarian...
...goal of the conference is largely patterned after Canada's United Church which has welded Canadian Methodists, Congregationalists and most Presbyterians and hopes to include Anglicans, Baptists. Of this union, Gershom W. Mason, general counsel for Canada's United Church last week said: "[Its benefits are] a feeling of freedom to restate and interpret the doctrine of the church from time to time in the light of present day conditions, an enriched sense of fellowship, an increase of 40% in donations to the church over the aggregate amounts before the union, and the great economic savings and spiritual...
...failure to achieve such a union was partly ascribed by Methodist Frank A. Horne to economic inefficiency. Said he: "Waste in church administration and unproductive expenditure constitutes a collective sin of the churches. The losses due to inefficiency are shown by the surplus of Protestant church edifices, with three times as many sittings as there are adherents. Under Roman Catholic unity that communion has an approximate proportion of two and a half communicants for every sitting...