Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-08-09
CHURCHUNION
SEEMS NEARER.
World Conference Reports
Day Of One Creed is Not
Far Away

Chicago. Aug. o.-{By the Assoei-
Press .)-Church union and ths,
possibility Of all .Chrtstendcm recog-r
nizinE one creed appear to be q step
nearer than they have for many cen
turtles, according to a report of the
commission on the world conference
on Faith and Order which will be
submitted> to the general convention
Of the. Episcopal church in Portland,
Ore, next month.
The report announces there will be
. meeting in Washington. p. c., in
May, 1875, of delegates from nearly
a hundred denominations. from q.
score, OF countries, to discuss the pos
stbilities Of Christian union. This
will be a reconvention OF the body
which met in Geneva in 1920, OF this
ferences were manifested but ali were
convinced that great progress can be
be made" At the Washington con
ference all the denominations present
ct Geneva are expected, including
Anglican. Baptist. CONVERSATIONAL,
Czek, Armenian, Disciples, Eastern
dist, Presbyterian ana Reformed
churches. Before the conference
meets the committee suggests that
fundamental questions shall be dis
cusskd, the report suggests are:
II. What degree Of unity in faith
vii b. necessary in a reunited
%. is a statement of this one faith
in the form of a creed necessary o:
desirable?
80. If SO, what creed should be
used, or what formnlary would be
"a. What are the proper uses of
a creed and of a confession of faith :?
Until Christians are agreed as to
what the church is and the place
and function of a creed the report
continues. lit seems futile to take up
other. 1t has BEEN well said that
there is no church which has not
A%ornething of value to give to its sis
ter churches or to receive from them.
II we believe that, let us test tits
truth.
"At Geneva it was proposed that
special commissions. should be created
for the study of %doE1natie, historical
and l~iturgical questions, and those
concerning ministerial orders and au-
thorities, as affecting the differences
between Christian cemmunions, and
that n~egotiations7 should be opened
between related communions for
closer fellowship as a step toward the
The Eastern Orthodox. churches
are low very hopeful as to the world
conference. !,
"An encyclioal letter of THE HOLY
Orthodox Eastern church OF Con-
fstantinople vas Issued in 1920, urg-
ing the promotion Of closer relations
of friendship among the churches,
and to that end a. the acceptance
of a uniform calendar; (b) the ex-
change of bretherly letters: (e) a
more friendly intercourse between
Theological schools, and the exchange
OF theological and eeclesia stical peri
odicals; (e) the exchange of students
between the seniinaries of Different
churches; (f) the converting of pain
Christian conferences to exarpine
questions of a common interest; ca
impartien and historical exaEninatiof
OF dectfinal differences; fh) mutual
respect for the customs and usage.
prevailing in each church; () mu.
tual permission for the use Of place.
Of prayer and of cemeteries; o. The
settlement of the question of mixed
marriages. and CD the mutual sup
port of the churches in the work D.
strengthening religious belief, o;
charity and the like. A favorable re
ply was made to this conmupica
! ton