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Occasionally, when an article appears in a national periodical proclaiming the completion of a long-sought-for theological union of two Protestant sects, it is hailed as a sign of the times: the beginnings of a great post-war religious revival and consolidation. Just as often, though not so well...
Though it is only one of many attempts at religious cooperation and is primarily limited to the inter-Protestant sphere, the Massachusetts Council of Churches may serve to illustrate the modern trend. Almost all of the Protestant seets which do not belong to some other similar seet are members. The...
To the Canadian Travel Bureau in Ottawa came a worried letter from a Michigan resident who had read of Premier Maurice Duplessis' all-out campaign against Jehovah's Witnesses (TiME, Dec. 16). The letter writer, who was planning a Canadian tour, asked : "Is it safe for a Protestant...
...pretty well briefed in those twin evils with which Protestantism currently is striving; namely, secularism and denominationalism. There is a third evil. . . clericalism. The Protestant enterprise in the United States is preacher-ridden. What Protestantism speaks, the language, the voice and the meaning are clerical. What Protestantism does is planned by preachers. What Protestantism refuses to do is explained by preacher-reasons. The laity's vision, as is often alleged, may be foreshortened. But in the effort which he now must make to inch Protestantism forward, Mr. Taft will find himself more often afoul of the clergy...
...believe that Mr. Taft has no greater prophetic opportunity than to begin the righting of this unbalance-righting it, not for the laymen's sake, but for the sake of Protestantism. Clericalism is a perversion of the Protestant idea. . . . The Catholic hierarchy can put the Roman Catholic Church on record, and is listened to accordingly. But both the general public and the churchgoing public are aware, I think, that no such authority is vested in the Protestant clergy. That fact has been part of the Protestant boast. Protestantism will speak with authority, and be listened to accordingly, when...