The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-09-10
TWO GREAT CHURCH
BODIES PLAN PACT
Episcopal Congregational League Up
for Action at Coming Con-
vention-

Detroit, Mich, Sept 9.--The pro-
posed 'concordat" between the Epis-
copal church and the Congregational
church which will be the subject of
much discussion at the approaching
triennial General convention of the
Episcopal church To be held in this
city October s to 81, is interesting not
only as practical approach to Protest
ant Church union but has an appeal
ing historical background.
The proposed "concordat" If ii re-
safytas the endorsement of the conven~
ton here, will bring into a close unity
of effort two religious elements in our
national life that were strongly antag-
onistic at the outset of our history as
a nation, tie Puritan of New England
and the Anglican cavalier OF the South
When the latSr effected the first
permanent settlement in these states
at Jamestown Va, in 1907, and the
former sought a home on the sterile
inhospitable shores of New England
in 1920, the motherland of England
that had sent both types of adven-
turers forth, was on the threshold OF
the Great Revolution that overthrow
Charles | and brought Oliver Crom
well and the Puritans on to the stage
Of English history as a governing
force. As the gallant, light hearted
adherents Of the church of England
settled Virginia and the stern Puritans
sought asylum on Plymouth Rock
James the First, back in the home
land. was sowing the seed that his son
was to reap in bitter harvest of de-
thronement and death. Puritan and
Cavalier, religiously and socially, were
so far apart AS the poles. The char
acteristics of each were craven deep
on our national life north and south
Only since the Civil war has there
been an approach To real national
unity of though and feeling.
And now we see the spiritual heirs
of the Puritans who planted the Con
grcgatiopal church in America and OF
the Cavaliers, who planted the first
Episcopalan church in these states
so close together that working "con-
cordat" Is proposed whereby a min
lister of the Congregational church
may be ordained by a bishop to the
diaconate and to the priesthood of the
Episcopal church without giving up or
denying his membership or his min
istry in the old church Of the Puritans
A form of proposed canon will be
offered TO the convention here backed
by a powerful element of both low
and high" churchmen who will press
for it's enactment into the canoncial
law of the Protestant Episcopal
church in the United States The pro-
posed canon was formulated at con-
ference of representatives of both
churches as follows:
For the Episcopal church-The Rt
Rev. william Cabell Brown the Epis-
copal bishop of Virginia; the Rev. DR..
Hugh Fosbroke. dean OF the General
Theological seminary; the Rev. DR.
William r. Manning, the rector OF
Trinity church, New York city; the
Rev DIR. Charles L. Slattery the rec
tor Of Grace church, Now York city;
Howard B. St. George. Z president OF
Nashotah seminary; Francis I4ynde
Stetson, layman of New York city;
Robert H. Gardiner layman Of Ban
gor, Maine; George Zabriske. chancel-
Tor of the diocese OF New York.
For the Congregational church
Charles F.. Carter, chairman of the
executive committee Of the National
council OF Congregational churches:
the Rev. DR.. Nehemiah Boynton.