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...commenting upon the proposal for union between the Episcopal and Presbyterian Churches in the United States, TIME'S religion editor might well ponder upon the difference between mating (which produces merely offspring) and marriage in the Christian sense (which produces a family), and better understand the justifiable caution with which many in both churches approach the issue...
Said he: "The solution is, refuse to get mad, refuse to quit, and hope that the people on the other [Presbyterian] side will do the same...
Gates of Hell. As the Right Reverends, the Reverends and the churchly laymen went home, the Convention's action on the vexed question of Presbyterian union still looked to many a Christian like asking people to dinner and being surprised when they showed up. Fumed the liberal Episcopal semimonthly, The Churchman...
...During the discussion in the House of Bishops on Union with the Presbyterians, Bishop Powell of Maryland declared that 'the gates of hell shall not prevail against the Episcopal Church.' It turned out that the Bishop was overoptimistic, for the gates of hell did a good job of prevailing. The painful level of discussion in the House of Deputies was sufficient evidence -and evidence, also, that the Protestant Episcopal Church is more in need of an infusion of Presbyterian intelligence than anyone had previously suspected...
...Presbyterian Church is still willing to continue negotiations with the Episcopal Church after that exhibition, they can well claim to represent an essence of Christianity unique in the modern world...