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"Wc want a League Of Nations for the protection of the worldf)
peace, and ue want a League of the Churches for the protection of
the world's faith." -HALL CA1NE, in a letter to The ChiliUm Herald
WILL THE CHURCH FAIL?
"We are challenged by this war to a deep and unrelenting detestr
tjon of the little bigotries, the needless divisions, that so deeply curse
our churches. We must have a great relljlon to meet a great need."
-Rev. HENRY EMERSON FOSDICK
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Unity of command won the war. Will not the churches now unite
to meet the even greater problems of Peace?
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of Churches!
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What is being done
to gain unity
FEW days ago a small group of
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ing after-the-war markets. They were a
delegation of church leaders to make
definite plans for a worldwide 'conference
of all Christian churches in all countries.
This effort is one of many in the
direction of church unity. What will be
the result?
Will the churches be merged, as has
been proposed in Canada for the
Methodists,Congregationalistsand
Presbyterians?
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Will the churches unite on certain
general prtnciples,mznoiz interfering
in any way with the right of each
man to worship as he chooses?
in any way with the right of eac
Will there be community federations,
such as that in Indianapolis, where
200 churches, by combining their
efforts, gained 34,000 new members
in five years?
Some form of unity there must be.
Yet not until wc universally recognize
the need, can the right plan be formed
and successfully carried out'.
Week by week the Christian Herald
is explaining this movement, and, is
bringing; to Dear on it the thought of
leaders in every walk of life.
PEACE is bringing the world its greatest prob
lems, its greatest dangers.
Bolshevism is sweeping Central Europe.
Opposing aims of individual states, now that the
war is over, are making a realization of the League of
Nations, for which all nave fought, dif f icu 1 1 to attai n .
Laborin every country of the old world is demanding
anentirechangein the present attitude toward indus
try, toward government, toward private property.
The world is yearning for a peace of freedom and
justice. Yet not until we have settled the problems
that' face us today, can free'dom and justice be made
th$ frights of all.
These problems cannot be solved independently.
They are all. one problem a problem which can be
solved only by unity of action.
Unity of the Allied forces won the war. The
French, British, and American armies were all
individually strong. They had a common aim
to beat Germany. Yet not until they gained unity
of command, unity of action, were they able to win.
Unity is now needed to make the victory of democ
racy secure, to make peace worth the fight.
The churches are individually strong. Minor
.differences they have, but all are united in a common
Christian aim. The time has come when they must
openly recognize that common purpose. The time
has come when they must not merely think together,
but work together.
Can we make Christianity count?
Just as Christianity counts in everyday personal
morality, so must it be made to count in education,
in business, in politics, in national and international
life. The League of Nations has cost the world
7,354,000 lives and $200,000,000,000. To make
The League of Nations an effective and permanent
force for peace, our individual Christianity must
take some definite concrete form.
There are in the United States 41,000,000 church
members, 143,000 church buildings. Let us not waste
these tremendous forces in the conflicting elforts of
170 separate denominations.
Let us rather emphasize the one thing which is
common to all denominations brotherhood. Let
us unite the denominations in a League of Churches,
not for the spread of particular doctrines, in which
everyone must have liberty of belief, but lor inspired
public service, in which wc all agree.
Church unity of this sort is no longer an idle
question. It is the only means of safeguarding the
future. Without it, the churches cannot meet what
has become a world problem. Without it, in a
time of great need, they are individually so inade
quate that it is a real question whether the church
itself will not fall.
One great force for unity
For 300,000 homes in this country the Christian
Herald is the means of transforming the desire for
Christian brotherhood into action. The Christian
Herald is leading in the fight for a united' church.
Week by week the Christian Herald shows how the
new spiritual awakening that is now sweeping the
world must become, and is in fact fast becoming,
a worldwide spirit of Christian unity.
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What four great spiritual
leaders say in current issues
of The Christian Herald
""OOD will among men as a stibsti--
tute for force can it succeed bc
jj tween unions? That is the test that
Christianity is going through tod.iy.
" These vords of The Christian 1 Icrald
are the cry ones and the only ones that
can fit the crisis and sci.c the opportu
nity." Rev. Junius B. Rlmlnsnydlr,
Pastor St. James Lutheran Church, New
York in The Christian Herald for
April 5.
ulHIS is the day of the church's glori-J-
ous privilege. God pity her if bhe
should fail to embrace the opportunity!"
Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman, late Mod
erator, Presbyterian Assembly.
FEMOCRACY must control in re-'
- ligion as in every other department
of organized life. In religion wc have
been too content to accept either autoc
racy or anarchy." Dr. J. E. McAfee.
T7VERY denominational name must
-4 be made secondary and subservient
to the name Christian, not in theory but
in practice." Dr. Francis E. Clark,
Founder and President, Christian
' Endeavor.
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