The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-01-03
WILL OUTLINE BASIS
FOR CHURCH UNITY
DR.. Remensnyder, Lutheran,
Chosen for Great Part at
Conference.
FIRST STEP TOMORROW

A Lutheran leader. the Rev. Or.
Junius B. Remensnyder of this city. a
former president OF the Lutheran Cen
sral Synod, has been selected by the
executive committee in the church unity
plan to deliver the address outlining the
basis on which the Christian churches
OF all the world may be united. Repre-
sentatives Of the Protestant churches Of
North America will meet In the Episcopal
Cathedral OF the Incarnation at Garden
city tomorrow. II will be an informal
session. The business sessions will start
on Wednesday. 1t In expected the con-
ference will remain in session until
Friday.
The purpose OF this conference is not
to negotiate for union, IL Is announced.
but to consider how Protestant churches
or North America may make united
plans for a world conference on faith and
order. The Rev. DIR. R~emensnyder Is
to state the generic faith on which Chris
tians of every name agree. This state
ment 10 to form the basis OF further
arguments ami. IL possible. agreements
Ills address In to lie followed by brief
addresses by an Episcopalian, a Pres
byterian. a Baptist and a Methodist.
Duty to Work Toward Unity.
Unity OF His followers WAS COM
mandcd by Christ" sUid the Rev. DR..
Remensnyder. and I cannot think He
could have commanded the impossible.
Whatever the difficulties in the way. and
however much any single body falls out
or fails In, 1t liz our duty to work toward
unity and to keep on working. I am
opposed to "A false liberalism on the ono
hand. that would unite for the sake OF
uniting. that would bring together people
VINO do not care overmuch what the
terms OF union are. Such union OF in
difference would prove worse han con-
scicntious division.
II agree with the Rev. Dr. Manning
In his able and Christian spirited article
In the last number OF the Constructive
Quarterly that the world conference to
be heid at Garden City beginning to-
morrow Is epochal in that II is the first
time since the separations OF the sin
teenth century that there has been such
a proposal 90 bring together the Chris
t!ans OF all communious with the thought
OF reunion In their hearts on the basis
OF belief In the Godhead Of their common
Saviour"
II was learned Yesterday that the
Right Rev. Dr. r. n. Weller. the Fond
du Lac Episcopal Bishop. who resigned
from his board OF missions as protest
against the ana Congress, is TO- at
tend the Garden City unity meeting.
DR.. Stevenson to Prestd~.
The new president of Princeton Theo-
logical Seminary. the Rev. DIR. j. Ross
Stevenson. formerly of this city. Is to
-
Thu conference will be opened by the
Rev. Or. Newman Smythe Of New
Haven.
Episcopal delegates include Bishop An
derson OF Chicago. Bishop Rhinelander
81 Philadelphia, the Rev. Dr. Abbot
Smith of Montreal. tho Rev. pr. Will
lam r, Manning OF this city. Bisho',
Greer. Francis Lynde Stetson. Seth Low
and George Zabriskie.
II was said yesterday that George
Wharton Pepper OF Philadelphia, the
High Church laymau who disagrces with
the High Church Bishop Weller IN the
Panama matter, will take su active
part. and may preside at some sessions.
Bishop hamilton Of Boston will at
tend for the Methodists, tho Rev. pr.
Cornelius Woclfkiu for Raptists and IN"
Rev. Or. Peter Aius.ie of Baltimore and
the Rev. Dr bfnis ldleman of this city
for the Disciples. Iuthcrans Will have
there. besides the Rev. Dr. Rcm"usuydcr.
the Rev. pr. i. :. ~SinCmastcr. presi-
dent of the Theological seminary al
Gettysburg the Rev. Dr. II II. Raus-
lin, president Of tho Divinity School at
Springfield. ohio. and the Rev. +. II.
Knubel 81 his "ity.
Nobody could lo found Yesterday who
could guess when tho world conference
would he held. There seemed 10 he
agreement that II Is likely to he held
in this city.
About 20. O00. 600 communicates ~
Christian churches, including those %
Canada, viii he represented In the do
liberstions az Garden CITY.