THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH

Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20740, 25 February 1939, Page 12 (Supplement)

THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH

PLEA FOR UNITY NEED FOR SOLIDARITY I, ' HAMPERED BY DIVISIONS I • From a Corespondent) NEW YORK. Dec. 8 The Presiding Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church called for o new unity at an open meeting of tin Federal Council oi Churches held in Buffalo. "When we see how firmly evil is entrenched in individual human nature, in social customs, in political and industrial institutions, the need for a united Christian front is apparent,' the Rt. Rev. Henry Ft. George Tucker said. "What hope is there that a divided church will ever succeed in converting the non-Christian peoples?” he asked. Bishop asserted that inj dividual differences were transcended I when men were brought together in a i common cause and under a common • leadpr. j "It. is only the cause that comes ! from God and Ihe leader who has been j given by God lhat can bring about a ' unity Hihl will transcend all human differences. " he said, i The meeting on Christian unity con- ; eluded Ihe second days session of'lhe j council s fuu -day biennial meeting. I Forne 350 d* legates, representing ! communions, adopted an amendment ! to the Council Constitution, add.ng 12 i additional delegates, who will repreI sent Stale and local Councils of | churches throughout the country. | Treatment of Jews abroad was de- ! cried in a report on the state of the I Church prepared for presentation at 1 the opening of the national conclave. i A committee headed by John A. I Mac Kay, President of the Prince- | ton Theological Seminary, asserted: j “Christians of the world must main--1 tain solidarity, whatever happens to ! the nations to which they belong.” Without naming any nation, the report declared: "Dark abysses of unexpected cruelty have been unveiled iin the human heart. Hosts of perI scented Jews and Christians are being driven info the valley of Ihe shadow of dpalh . . . demonic . . . forces seem to control the destiny of mankind.” Asserting that a belief in God was more needed than ever before, the committee • censured church life in general as being ”sniu*r and complacent." and pointed out "that Ihe churches as we know them, are at a i great disadvantage in the new spiritual conflict lhat begins to loom before us in the world to-day.”