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July 6, 1928 . WILMETTE LIFE TROOP IZ MEETS The reg.ular meeting of troop 12, Boy Scouts, ·was held last Friday ' night at Teatro del Lago. As Louis Simmel, Scoutmaster, could not be present, Mr. Franklin took charge, and George The following article Fackt assisted. . . ' A United Church of America Editor's Note: by Dr. Ernest Fremont Tittle, pastor of the First Methodist church of Evanston, SUBSTITUTE CLERK is published in WILMETTE LIFE at the instance of a Wilmette church worker. It Relda Murr.ay of Kenilworth is the appeared on the. editorial , page of a re- new · substitute clerk at the Kenilworth cent issue of the Chicago Evening Post. postoffice. "At the recent general conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, a resoMr. and Mrs. A. E. Miller of 1202 lution was presented which asked for Lake avenue are taking a trip around the substitution of the words, 'Christ's holy church' for the words 'the holy Lake Michigan this week. catholic church' in the Apostles' Creed. "There are, apparently, even yet some Methodists who are afraid on Sunday mornings to say 'I believe in the holy catholic church,' lest some one should suppose them to mean that they believe in the Roman Catholic church. "But this resolution was voted down. The majority felt that this was not the time to take out of a great historic creed the affirmation of Jesus' own hope and prayer that some day all his followers would be united in one heroic and determined attempt to build on earth the city of God. "So on Sunday mornings, Methodists may continue to say 'I believe in the holy catholic church.' In so doing they may remind themselves that the Christion church did not begin with John Wesley or even with Martin Luth er; that it began in the long, long ago with those twelve men whom Jesus himself chose 'that they might be with him' ; and that it has been kept alive by such men as St. Augustine and St. Bernard of Clairvaux and St. Francis of Assisi and St. Thomas a Kempis. "They may still sing : 'For all the saints, who from their labors rest, _ Who thee by faith before the world confessed, . Thy name, 0 Jesus, be fore\'er blessed, Hallelujah, . Hallelujah !' "And then seeing they are compassed about by so great a cloud of witnesses, they may lay aside every denominational incumbrance and extend the hand of fellow<>hip to the Presbyterian church, the Baptist church, the Congregational church, and any other church which is beginning to perceive the awful folly of existing denominational divisions in the face of a recrudescent paganism in faith and conduct. "This, as a matter of fact, the Methodist Episcopal church is proposing to do, for it appointed a committee on church union empowered to make overtures to and receive overtures from other religious bodies. "In Canada, already, Methodists and Congregationalists and PresbytE:rians have joined their hearts and their hands in a great Christian union, the United Church of Canada, and the year 'the giving of the United Church of Canada was 25 per cent higher than the giving of the three denominations In their best THE 1 year before they went into the union. · "Thanks to the elimination of wasteful competition, 278 mission churches of this great united church have, in a little more than a year, become self-supporting. In community after community, instead of two little disheartened churches, gt~ard one on one side of the street, the other on the opposite side, each being subsidized by a national mission board, you ftnd today one rapidly developing church, not only self-supporting, but making Its own contributions to mission fields. "What if some day we should have a united church of America? Think of the decrease of waste and of the increase of power. .. And think of another posslblllty. Sometimes when contemplating the need of an etlective association of nations which would undertake to remove the causes of war and lead the world Into the ways of peace, I have found myself considering the fact that as yet not even the churches are united. How can the nations unite If even the churches remain · apart? "But suppose the churches should unite? Would not the lessons learned in the · formation of a united church assist in the formation of a united world? The willingness to think and let think, to give and take, to subordinate denominational interest to the Interests of the kingdom of God-all that would be Involved in any real union of churcheswould It not splendidly prel)are the way for an eventual union of nations? ..A united church of America? Why, surely It is not Inconceivable that such an achievement might prove the forerunner of a united church of the world." 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