Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 286, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 December 1918 — CHURCH UNION FAVORED. [ARTICLE]

CHURCH UNION FAVORED.

Philadelphia, Dec.] 6.—The proposed federation of churches was approved and resolutions recommending the appointment of an interdenominational committee of every Protestant faith and of the home and foreign missionary societies, to take definite steps toward organic church un;ion, were unanimously adopted by the Congress for Church Union, in session here. Each denomination wfll ! iave one member on this committee for every 600,000 communic&nts, acting as delegates-at-large to a convention to be held in 1920, when it is proposed to take decisive action on the question. The home and foreign missionary societies also will be represented by one member each. Although the federation would have concrete form and advisory power over its members, the resolutions set forth, the union would be spiritual rather than material. No mechanical change in the form of administration or form of service would be made by individual churches, according to the resolutions. “This is the most significant step the church has taken since the Reformation,” said the Rev. W. Chapman.