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...TIME is excellent for news ordinarily and we all enjoy it in my family, but we are astonished to find omitted this week both from the Religion and the International departments an event of great significance in the religious world, viz., the visit to this country of the British Congregationalists on their twentieth century good will Pilgrimage. Could you have been privileged to sit at the banquet in the Hotel Astor the night of Friday June 15 and listen to the thrilling addresses so expressive of British-American fellowship and peace made by men like Fred B. Smith, S. Parkes...
...with it. The friends in this case were the mem bers of the family of twin brothers, now dead, who were graduated from Princeton in 1877, Judge Walter Lloyd-Smith and the Rev. Wilton Merle-Smith. The man was Dr. Robert Russell Wicks, intelligent, eloquent Congregationalist lately of Holyoke, Mass. For him the new office of Dean of the Chapel was created. Hitherto Princeton, traditionally Presbyterian, has had no official pastor...
Methodist support of church unity, which was so forcibly demonstrated last week (TIME, May 21), was again emphasized when the bishops gave their approval to moves for merging the Methodist Episcopal Church and the Methodist Episcopal Church South in Korea. With pleasure, they received messages from Congregationalist State Conventions which endorsed the proposed union of Methodist, Presbyterian and Congregationalist Churches. They learned, too, that in New York State the Congregationalists and the Disciples of Christ were planning a local merger which they hope later to make national...
...Methodist, Presbyterian, and Congregationalist Churches of Canada ceased being separate organizations and became the United Church of Canada (TIME, June 22. 1925). The unification was not unanimous nor was it accomplished without wheezings and cries from minority separatists...
...union and other men to cry them down. Yet last week, at the Quadrennial General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, being held in Kansas City, a resolution was introduced to effect not merely the long-discussed union with the Methodist Episcopal Church South but also with Presbyterian and Congregationalist Churches. This resolution was passed unanimously by the Committee on the State of the Church; when presented to the entire congress of Methodist potentates, it was passed again by a vote of 852 to 3. The proposal concerned 55,000 pastors, 60,000 churches, 35,000.000 human souls...