Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Union of the Protestant sects, nowadays the major topic of Protestant discussions, received further advancement at the Christian Herald Conference for laymen and churchmen (TIME, June 10), which closed last week at Buck Hill Falls, Pa.
U. S. failure to achieve such a union was partly ascribed by Methodist Frank A. Horne to economic inefficiency. Said he: "Waste in church administration and unproductive expenditure constitutes a collective sin of the churches. The losses due to inefficiency are shown by the surplus of Protestant church edifices, with...
Unity, the increasing purpose of Protestant sects, last week received fresh impetus in the U. S.
While merger meetings were being held throughout the land, representatives of six churches (Baptist, Protestant Episcopal, Methodist Episcopal, South, Society of Friends, Lutheran. Presbyterian) convened at Washington to discuss the report on Christian unity prepared in 1927 by the International Conference on Faith & Order at Lausanne, Switzerland. Next week, 100...
Died. Dr. Edward Mansfield McGuffey, 74, of Elmhurst, N. Y., rector of St. James's Protestant Episcopal Church, authority on canon law, son of the late Alexander McGuffey (coauthor of famed McGuffey Readers); in Elmhurst.