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Last week three important Protestant denominations met in their own fashions to consider the concerns of their churches. The threat of war, denominational unity and Roman Catholicism seemed to be uppermost in the churchmen's minds.
President Polk recommended the appointment to Congress, and the House, with only two Catholics in its membership, passed it 137 to 15. The Senate followed suit, 36 to 7. For 20 years (1848-67) the U.S. maintained a Minister to the Papal States, but the mission was discontinued largely because...
For 22 years many a Protestant pastor has kept himself Emily-posted on such clerical fine points through the pages of the Rev. Nolan B. Harmon's Ministerial Ethics and Etiquette. This week Methodist Harmon brought out his book in a new, revised edition (Abingdon-Cokesbury; $2.50). Some highlights...
*Winnetka Congregational, which boasts members of 34 Protestant denominations, mostly Presbyterians, Baptists and Methodists.
"We will have to develop enough intelligence as Catholics to recognize that the United States is a great Protestant country, not only in formal church membership but in some of the basic traditions of more than one hundred millions of its people. A clerical-religious approach to the question of...