Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-07-18
CHRISTIAN UNITY
PLAN CAUSES NO
LOCAL AGITATION
Bishop Edwin S. Lines and Will,
lam F. Morgan Among Lead
ers in New Movement.

Bishop Edwin s.. Lines. of Newark.
and William Fellowes Morgan declared
today that there will be no local agi-
tation In. the Christian Unity Founda-
ton, Just organized, with the idea of
Welding all Christian denominations
into one organic religious body. Bishop
Lines is n of the Independents of
the new organization. Mr.. Morgan Ia u
lay member
New York will be the centre of all
operations" said Bishop Lines. I'VE
will map out a plan by research and
study"
Mr.. Morgan, at his New York office,
said that there would not be any local
agitation; that the plan is a big one
and that il will take time to work It
out. He said the second paragraph of
the articles of the foundation tells just
what&s contemplated, and he had Moth
ing farther to edd. This is the para
graph to which Mr., Morgan referred:
Purpose of Corporation.
THE purpose for which the corpora
ton is formed Is to promote Christian
unity at home and throughout the
world. To this end to gather n dis
serninate accurate information relative
to the faith and works of all Christian
bodies; to set forth h great danger
of our unhappy divisions and the waste
Of spiritual energy due therein; to de-
wise and suggest practical methods of
cooperation. substituting comfy for
rivalry In the propagation of the COM
mon faith; to bring together all who
are laboring in the same field. and this
In the belief that full knowledge of one
another will emphasize our actual
membership In the one body of Christ
and our common agreement in the es-
sentials of faith.
THAT, finally, by the operation of the
Spirit of God, the various Christian
bodies may be knit together in more
evident unity IN thes essentials of faith
and practise, and in one organic life.
so we, being many, are one body In
Christ, and every one members of one
of another"
Bishop Frederick ,Courtney, rector of
st. James's' Church, is president OF the
foundation. The vice-presidents are
Bishop William CroSwell Doane, of AL
bsny: Bishop Boyd Vincent, of south
ern Ohio; Bishop G. P. Anderson, of
Chicago; Bishop e. S. Lines, of New
AK: Bishop David H. Greer, of New
York: Robert Fulton Cutting, Rear
Admiral Caspar F. Goodrich, Colonel
Charles William Larned, u. S. A.;
George Wharton Pepper, of Philadel-
phia. and John H. Stiness. former chief
Justice of Rhode Island. The Rev. DIR.
Arthur Lowndes is secretary and
George Gordon King treasurer.
First Trustees.
Besides these officers the following
are also incorporators and first trus-
tees of the foundation: The Rev. DR..
Reese r. Alsop,S Canon George William
Douglas, the Rev. DIR. H. r. Gummey,
jr, the Rev. Rockiand T. Romans,
Canen Robert Ellis Jones. John NJ.
Gssun. director Of the Sage Foundation;
Francis c. Huntington. son of the late
rector Of Grace Church; william Eel
owes Morgan, Lawson Purdy, Charles
@. Saunders. OF Boston. and william
Jay Schieffelin.
It is tremendously ambitious pro-
gram that this little body of men has
outlined DR.. Lowndes, the secretary.
admitted yesterday. Nothing tangible
may result from our efforts in the life
time Of any one OF us, but we are going
ahead quietly and inconspicuously, fol-
lowing the lines OF a resistance"