Attempts at Comity

At St. Louis last week there was a seminar, wished well by President Hoover, seeking to bring about some mutual understanding and co-operation by Protestants, Roman Catholics, Jews. At Buck Hill Falls, near Stroudsburg, Pa., there was a similar Institute of Religion, financed by James Cash Penney and conducted by the Christian Herald Association, seeking to bring about church union by Protestant denominations.

One definite suggestion developed at Buck Hill Falls. It was a creed for a united Christian Church, phrased by President George Warren Richards of the Theological Seminary of the Reformed Church in the U. S., Lancaster, Pa. thus:

1) The Bible as a rule for faith and practice.

2) The Apostolic or Nicene creed or both.

3) Shifting from emphasis on doctrine to emphasis on Christian ethics.

4) Recognition of the fact that the statements of faith of all denominations are equivalent and any one is adequate.

5) Jesus as Lord and Saviour.

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