Word: irenicon
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...Protestant church in the U. S. Such a united church has long been the holy dream of U. S. Methodists who first attempted to make it come true by appointing a commission in 1918. Last week in Evanston, Ill., ten bishops and 40 ministers and laymen agreed upon an irenicon which they publicly hoped would result in a merger of the Methodist Episcopal Church, the Methodist Protestant Church which split off in 1828 because of doctrine and administration, and the Methodist Episcopal Church. South which angrily broke away in 1845 because of slavery...
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