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...ecumenical dream becomes a reality. Although the delegates in Dallas were committed to merger, many privately wondered whether their churches were willing to make the surrender of power and principle that the union will demand. "The man in the street is for church union and motherhood," said President Ben Herbster of the United Church of Christ, "but when union means giving up St. John's down there by the gas station, that may be another matter...
Similar objections were voiced by the lay-edited Catholic monthly Ramparts, the Episcopal journals the Witness and the Churchman, and the biweekly United Church Herald - although Dr. Ben Herbster, president of the United Church of Christ, later maintained that the magazine was not speaking for the denomination. Many other church journals seem to have lined up against Goldwater by implication. The Methodist student magazine Motive reprinted the entire Christianity and Crisis special issue dissecting Goldwater, while the Covenant Companion of the Evangelical Covenant Church published a story on the Century's stand; neither journal added comment or rebuttal...
...brand-new, 2,000,000-member United Church of Christ came officially into being in Philadelphia last week. The infant church, composed of the Congregational Christian Churches and the Evangelical and Reformed Church, elected as its first president Dr. Ben Mohr Herbster, 56, pastor of the 925-member Zion Evangelical and Reformed Church of Norwood, Ohio, for the past 30 years...
Long active in the negotiations that led to the merged United Church, and onetime president of the Cincinnati Council of Churches as well as exchange preacher with the British Council of Churches, Dr. Herbster is optimistic about the future of church union. Said he last week: "If the Congregational Christian Churches and the Evangelical and Reformed Church, with all the differences of background, polity and traditions could come together and demonstrate such a spirited unity as is evident here, there are few if any Christian .denominations that cannot take such a step...
...once came a favorable reply suggesting that merger conferences begin in September. The delegates also voted to "respond affirmatively" to the proposal of Presbyterian Stated Clerk Eugene Carson Blake for a merger of Presbyterians, Episcopalians, Methodists and the United Church of Christ (TIME cover, May 26). Said pleased President Herbster: "We promised in the beginning to be not only a united church but a uniting church...
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