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...Merger. In their long, low-ceilinged meeting room in Houston Hall, the 150-man House of Bishops sat in maple chairs before rough little tables-an impressive phalanx of white hair, black clothes and informal dignity. Into their hands last week was put the nettle of Episcopal-Presbyterian union. The lower House of Deputies had refused to grasp it, instead had gingerly pushed it aside by voting: 1) to keep for another three years the Joint Commission on Unity, and request it to draft a new basis of union; 2) to ask the Presbyterians to produce a similar document...
...Philadelphia, a decision will be made which will have far-reaching significance. The plan of union with the Presbyterian Church, negotiated by a joint commission of the two churches, will be presented to the convention with the request that it be submitted to the respective churches 'for study'. ... A minority of the Episcopal members of this joint commission has issued a statement opposing even so tentative a commitment to the proposed plan of union, on the alleged ground that it 'radically distorts the religion of our Lord' and is equivalent to the 'giving...
...only did the Episcopal Church take the initiative in the general ecumenical movement, but it was upon its initiative that negotiations with the Presbyterian Church were begun. . . . The plan which the majority now presents deliberately omits for further consideration certain questions of detail (the functions of bishops in the united church, for example) and goes directly to the crucial matters of episcopacy, the ministry and sacraments. On these and other questions a surprising identity in principle was discovered...
Despite its Presbyterian tie, Marie Schultze has taken her clinic far above sect. Mothers in the 100% Catholic neighborhood never balk at going to the Protestant clinic. All but one of her doctors are Catholic, and when good Nurse Schultze got her medal, a Catholic priest made the introductory speech...
...human infections is bacterial endocarditis (bacterial inflammation of a heart membrane). Against it, penicillin at first failed. Now heart specialists have found an answer: bigger doses of penicillin than previously tried. In a bulletin of the American Heart Association, Dr. Thomas H. Hunter of Manhattan's Presbyterian Hospital announced that with massive penicillin doses (up to 20,000,000 units a day) it is possible to cure the subacute form of the disease "in almost every patient...