The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-02-05
ONE HEAD FOR
PR0TESTANTS
Dream of Unity of Churches Is
Said to Be Nearer Than Ever
to Its Realization.
EPISCOPAL BISHOP AND
DISCIPLE ARE LEADERS
Interesting Topics and Plans
Among the Various Religious
Bodies Of United States.
BY D. v. FRANCIS.

oJ IShSeu WIRE 10 lne 1rlDuno.
NEW YORK, Feb 4.-Episcopallans
Presoyterians. Disciples OF Christ and
Congregationalists have now made defn-
lite and tangible statements looking
toward unity with other Protestant
bodies. Others have expressed interest
In unofficial ways. and the whole Prot
estant system in America is undergoing
marked changes. Unity may be some dis
tance Off. but there Is much talk about 1t.
Some favor Christian unity. which In
counted to mean cooperation; and others
come out boldly for church union, which
means they Say, wiplng out Of all pres-
ent bodies and their organizations, and
the creation OF one great Protestant body.
Wit name yet TO be selected
A good many different men, In half
dozen religious bodies, have led to this
movement and II unity takes the place Of
disunion. their names will go down to
posterity because Of their part In It.
But there are two men who are &C
knowledged leaders. One Of them Ii the
Episcopal Ep bishop bishop Of Chicago. the Right
other is Rev. Peter Ainsile Of Baltimore.
Both remarkable men. given to leader
ship; ship, the one Episcopal and The other
met. although the committees Of which
they are in the hands have been IN cor
rrespondence looking 70 preliminary con-
This year Baptists from all the world
and they number four TO FIVE millions
are to go to Philadelphia In June. The
saps5 sapss hor shes Sosns ans % fr
lar work. will be held first Than comes
general meeting Of Bapdsts Of North
America, when the south and Canada
VIII be welcomed Lastly is the Baptist
world alliance, when especially will be
welcomed delegates from Southwestern
Europe and Russia, where Baptists have
gained much strength within recent
years A score of the delegates who are
to come TO America, Baptists Of America
paying their expenses, have done services
as exiles in Siberia
Catholics to Have Chautauqua
Beginning this year. the Catholic uni-
versity at Washington win have a sum-
foundation as useful in the summer as IL
is in other months CT the year. Cooper
ating with the university in its new plan
will be most OF the houses OF the orders
tolic Mission house OF the society Of st.
Paul the Apostle.
A special aim of the PauIist Fathers.
who are in charge OF the house, will be
the training of men and women for lay
work, has been done at Chautauqua
and similar institutions An appeal has
know to what extent they can depend on
the cooperation OF the Catholic laity.
The almost unused educational advan-
tages OF Washington its government ex-
hibits and other attractions, will be
utilized In the courses OF study.
Paullsts announce that their plan
apart from that Of the university. has
vital relation TO the conversion of the
American people to the Roman Catholic
faith.
Lutherans Compiling Service.
Lutherans In America are compiling
common service book and common hymnal
for for use in public religious worship by the
2,220,00 Lutherans In this country. There
are now four different books, generically
the same, all coming from the first litur-
gical service prepared by Martin Luther
ferent Lutheran bodies in this country
that are leading In this advance are the
general synod, the general council and the
united synod south, and representatives
OF all of them have just met and so far
perfected the work that II Is expected
both service book and hymnal can be
published within two years. possibly
little earlier.
Liturgles for public worship according
70 Protestant forms, including the Eng
lish forms OF common prayer, had COM
mon origin at the hands OF Luther. Sew
eral famous leaders OF the English Refor-
nation went to Wittenberg, some OF them
remaining there as long as eighteen
months. After the publication OF the
service in German. perhaps a generation,
the English service book made It's ap-
pearance. II has now extended In Ger
man and English, to every part OF the
and hymnal will have field OF about
10 900 churches In this country wherein
their use may be expected.
Brethren Sunday Schools Prosper.
The United Brethren IN Christ, Prot
estant body having Protestant head and
its great membership In the middle west,
with Pennsylvania as the easterly limit,
laid unusual emphasis upon Sunday school
work last year with an increased enroll
mcnt OF 29,537 teachers and pupils. With
q total membership OF S5,a30. this re-
ligious body presents the out OF the or
binary position of 3S2.lS Sunday school
Almost all bodies have
fewer in Sunday schools than in church
Some as low as half
Young peoples societies showed q slight
decrease. but 1t is explained by greater
missionary activity.