Religion: Unity or Surrender?

The Living Church this week blazed with indignation. The cause: proposed union of the Protestant Episcopal Church and the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Since 1943, an Episcopal Joint Commission on Approaches to Unity had labored on a merger plan. It brought forth not one document, but two. The majority report set up a basis for the proposed merger. The minority report deplored the proposal: ". . . We cannot believe that it is right in the sight of God and in loyalty to His Church to ask the Church to study . . . what we are profoundly convinced...