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Your piece (TIME, Oct. 18) about the Presbyterian question at our [Episcopal] General Convention succeeds in completely misstating the facts, which...
...movement of recent years toward Presbyterian-Episcopalian union is a movement against, not for Church Unity in the large and real sense...
...Cleveland's Euclid Avenue Baptist Church (no Episcopal church was large enough to hold the 750 Bishops, priests and laymen), were two reports from the Joint Commission on Approaches to Unity. For six years this Commission has pondered with unflagging leisureliness the question of uniting Episcopalians with the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. The majority report (twelve signers) favored unity; the minority report (three signers) opposed...
Later scholarly, urbane Presbyterian Moderator Henry Sloane Coffin addressed the Episcopal Convention. Said he dryly: "Our Church is committed to the principle of visible Church unity and never has sought to be merely a sect of the Holy Catholic Church...
Died. Ignatius Timothy Trebitsch-Lincoln, 64, charlatan extraordinary to the 20th Century; reportedly after an intestinal operation; in Shanghai. Born a Hungarian Jew, he soon became a Lutheran, left London as a Presbyterian missionary to Canada, reappeared as an Anglican curate in Kent. Then he dropped his clerical garb, called himself Lincoln, in 1910 was elected M.P. with the help of B. Seebohm Rowntree, a credulous cocoa king for whom Lincoln had turned Quaker. During World War I he became a British mail censor, was jailed after boasting how he had outsmarted Britain as a spy. Released an Anglophobe...