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...These two communions have a common origin, common articles of religion, a comparable form of government. That is a good deal. We could hardly ask for more as a basis of union. Some nine years ago, at the same time that the Episcopalians made overtures to the Presbyterian Church, a similar invitation was extended to the Methodists. Since the three branches of Methodism were busy consummating their own union, it seemed wise to postpone action. . . . But now that the Methodists are happily unified there can be no further reason for delay...
...Scotia who combined preaching and journalism for 25 years before he became a Republican Representative from New Jersey in 1925. ¶John Foster Dulles, 58, stoop-shouldered senior partner of Sullivan & Cromwell, one of the U.S.'s most puissant law firms, veteran of innumerable international congresses, No. 1 Presbyterian layman, and chairman of the Commission for a Just & Durable Peace of the Federal Council of Churches. ¶Adlai Ewing Stevenson, 46, able Illinois lawyer, grandson of Democratic Vice President Adlai ("The Headsman") Stevenson (who distinguished himself by discreetly purging some 40,000 Republican postmasters when Grover Cleveland became President...
Position Taken. "You know," Ed Martin once remarked, "there's never been anything colorful about me. I've just had to work like the devil." This is an accurate appraisal. The most colorful thing about him is his Army cussing. When the members of the First Presbyterian Church of Washington, Pa., wanted to make him an elder, he demurred. "I take a highball and cuss a little," he explained. They elected him anyhow. Actually he drinks very little, smokes not at all. His gravelly throat is the result of his gassing...
Last week the 240-year-old Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) announced that it had broken two records: 1) church membership was at an all-time high of 2,174,530 (an increase of 71,238 over the record enrollment of the fiscal year ending in March 1945); 2) contributions in the last fiscal year hit $67,219,476, or $7,610,461 above the previous year...
...Protestant (undenominational) Christian Century was fed up. It had had great hopes of possible unity between the Protestant Episcopal Church and the Presbyterian Church, U.S.A. It had bridled when Episcopalians showed signs of reneging on their nine-year-old invitation to Presbyterians to consider union with them. This week, after the Episcopal General Convention at Philadelphia had turned down the report of its Joint Commission on Approaches to Unity (TIME, Sept. 30), the Century let go its safety valve...