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While Holy Trinity Church is nominally Anglican and title to the building rests with the Church of England in Canada, Pastor Barrow has made its liturgy a blend of Protestant ritual. Anglican Holy Communion services are followed by interdenominational services. United Church communion rites are performed regularly. Sunday school classes are taught from literature published by various Protestant faiths. Holy Trinity's board is elected with such impartiality that its chairman, Dr. G. M. Bastedo, could not recall last week the denominations of its members. Said Dr. Bastedo: "It doesn't really matter. We are all just Protestants...
...Pastor Barrow hopes that the Marathon experiment will have a broader effect than simply justifying the investment of time and money that went into the building of his parish. He travels regularly to both the Anglican and United Church synod meetings, stressing the Holy Trinity success as proof that the long-discussed union of the United Church* and the Church of England in Canada can be made to work. "God is neither Anglican, Baptist, Presbyterian, Lutheran nor United Church," he says. "Union ... is possible as we have it here...
Last June, when the Communists invaded the city, a group of South Koreans forceably carried off Pastor Ye under the impression that he was a Red guerrilla. By the time they realized their mistake, the Communists were in full control of Seoul and Ye could not get back. For over three months he waited anxiously in Pusan...
...have since joined a Protestant church. This principle works a great hardship upon young Protestants who want to get married, since Spanish law demands that if either partner has had a Catholic baptism, the couple must be married by a Roman Catholic priest. Even "an affidavit from a Protestant pastor that the parties are members of his church," writes Garrison, "is not regarded as 'documentary proof of non-Catholicity.' They still might have had Catholic baptism...
Every Protestant pastor to whom Garrison talked told him of gains; e.g., one of Madrid's larger congregations reported its membership had tripled since the end of the civil war nearly twelve years ago. Church services everywhere seemed to be attended almost to capacity. One of the chief reasons for this growth, thinks Garrison, is that the government prohibition of church publicity makes laymen more zealous in bringing others into the church. "There isn't a preacher in America who wouldn't rather have his laymen . . . constantly cover the neighborhood with quiet personal invitations to church than...