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Methodists number 9.2 million, divided into six districts, governed by bishops who are elected by jurisdictional conferences. Founded in the 18th century in reaction to the Church of England, Methodism stresses personal religious experience and love of God rather than doctrine, though Methodists believe in the Trinity, recite the Apostles...
Hope & Specifics. If Dr. Blake's plan could be translated into practice, the new church would have 17,800,000 members (see box), approximately equaling the Baptists. According to the best estimates, it would take a minimum of ten years to put the plan into effect. This seemed still...
But the scent of unity was heavy in the air, and all week long Protestant leaders were lining up behind the Blake-Pike lead. Presiding Bishop Arthur Carl Lichtenberger of the Protestant Episcopal Church, the Rev. Dr. James I. McCord, president of Princeton Theological Seminary, and Methodist Bishop John Wesley...
Getting the Blake proposal off the ground against the gravity of 500 years of Protestant fissiparousness would be something else again. Possible first step: appointment of a committee by the general assembly of the United Presbyterian Church next May to draft a more specific plan for later consideration.
These are the four Protestant denominations that the executive head of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., the Rev. Dr. Eugene Blake, proposes to unite into one church: