Organizations for the Promotion of Christian Unity 1 ASSOCIATION FOR THE PROMOTION OF CHRISTIAN UNITY, Inc. Having its inception in the work of Thomas Campbell, 1809, present organization 1910, President, Rev. Peter Ainslie, Seminary House, Baltimore, Md., U. S. A. For intercessory prayer, friendly conferences and distribution of irenic literature, "till we all attain unto the unity of the faith.'' Pentecost Sunday is the day named for special prayers for and sermons on Christian unity in all churches. ASSOCIATION FOR THE PROMOTION OF THE UNITY OF CHRISTENDOM, 1857, President, Athelstan Riley, Esq., 2 Kensington Court, London; Secretary in the United States, Rev. Calbraith Bourn Perry, Cambridge, N. Y. For intercessory prayer for the reunion of the Roman Catholic, Greek and Anglican communions. CHRISTIAN UNITY ASSOCIATION OF SCOTLAND, 1903, Prof. A. R. MacEwen, 5 Doune Terrace, Edinburgh. For maintaining, fostering and expressing the consciousness of the underlying unity that is shared by many members of the different churches in Scotland. CHRISTIAN UNITY FOUNDATION, 1910, President, Rt. Rev. Frederick Courtney, office, 143 E. 37th St., New York. For the promotion of Christian unity throughout the world by research and conference. CHURCHMAN'S UNION, 1896, President, Sir Richard Stapley, 33 Bloomsbury Square, London. For cultivation of friendly relations between the Church of England and all other Christian bodies. COMMISSION ON THE WORLD CONFERENCE ON FAITH AND ORDER, 1910, President, Rt. Rev. Charles P. Anderson, Secretary, Robert H. Gardiner, Esq., Gardiner, Me., U. S. A. For a world conference of all Christians relative to the unity of Christendom. FEDERAL COUNCIL OF THE CHURCHES OF CHRIST IN AMERICA, 1908, President, Rev. Frank Mason North, Secretary, Rev. Charles S. Macfarland, 105 E. 22d St., New York. For the coöperation of the various Protestant communions in service rather than an attempt to unite upon definitions of theology and polity. NATIONAL COUNCIL OF THE EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCHES OF ENGLAND, 1895, President, Rev. Principle W. B. Selbie, Mansfield College, Oxford, Secretary, Rev. F. B. Meyer, Memorial Hall, E. C., London. For facilitating fraternal intercourse and coöperation among the Evangelical Free Churches in England. SWANWICK FREE CHURCH FELLOWSHIP, 1911, Rev. Malcolm Spencer, 17 Palace Road, Crouch End, London, N. For the cultivation of corporate prayer and thought for a new spiritual fellowship and communion with all branches of the Christian Church. Association for the Promotion of Christian Unity Inc. (Having its Inception in the Work of Thomas Campbell a An Organization of Disciples of Christ PURPOSE OF THE ASSOCIATION: To watch for every indication of Christian unity and to hasten the time, by intercessory prayer, friendly conferences and distribution of irenic literature, "till we all attain unto the unity of the faith." ἵνα πάντες ἐν ὦσιν, καθὼς σύ, πατήρ, ἐν ἐμοὶ κἀγὼ ἐν σοί, ἵνα καὶ Ut omnes unum sint, sicut tu Pater in me, et ego in te, ut et CONDITION OF MEMBERSHIP IN THE ASSOCIATION: Sympathy with the work of Christian unity, expressed in prayer and coöperation, irrespective of church affiliation, and the payment of not less than $2.00 for annual membership fee, payment preferably in January. Those paying less are counted contributors, but not members. COMMISSIONERS: Peter Ainslie, D.D., LL.D., President, Baltimore, WORK OF THE ASSOCIATION: The Commission of the Association is For further particulars, address Association for the Promotion of Christian Unity PETER AINSLIE, President Seminary House, Baltimore, Md., U. S. A. EDWIN HEYL DELK is a native of Virginia, having been born in Norfolk, 1859. He was educated at the Friends Central and High School, Philadelphia, and the Lutheran Theological Seminary, Gettysburg. He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Pennsylvania College. He has held pastorates in New York and Hagerstown, Md. His present pastorate is at St. Matthew's Lutheran church, Philadelphia. He is a lecturer of Theology in Temple University, president of the Inter-Church Federation of Philadelphia and author of Three Vital Problems, The Heart of Religion, and various theological essays. HUBERT C. HERRING AND H. C. ARMSTRONG did the larger work of preparing the paper in this number dealing with the Congregationalists and Disciples, as a special committee appointed by the respective commissions. Dr. Herring graduated in 1887 from Princeton Theological Seminary and in the same year he was ordained to the Presbyterian ministry. After serving several pastorates in that communion he became pastor of the First Congregational Church, Omaha, in 1898. In 1907 he became secretary of the Congregational Home Missionary Society, and in 1913, general secretary of the National Council of the Congregational Churches, Boston. Mr. Armstrong graduated from Cotner University and later attended Yale, receiving the degree of Master of Arts in 1910 and Bachelor of Divinity in 1911. He is the pastor of the Harlem Avenue Christian Church, Baltimore, and is one of the commissioners of the Association for the Promotion of Christian Unity. He is the president of the Maryland Sunday School Association and is active in interdenominational work. CHARLES S. MACFARLAND received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from Yale in 1899. He served in Y. M. C. A. work and in several Congregational pastorates until 1911-12, when he became general secretary of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. He lectures on scientific, philosophical and theological subjects, and is a member of various societies having to do with these departments of learning. He is the author of Christian Ministry and the Social Order, Spiritual Culture and Social Service, etc. I. J. SPENCER is approaching a quarter of a century ministry at the Central Christian Church, Lexington, Ky. He was educated at Bethany College, from which he received the degree of Doctor of Laws. He has served in pastorates in Baltimore, Virginia and other churches in Kentucky before entering upon his present pastorate. For some years he edited The Missionary Weekly, at Richmond, Va., and is a frequent writer on fundamental, vital and current religious questions. He is a curator of Transylvania College and every week one of his sermons is published in the Lexington press. WILLIAM PIERSON MERRILL is one of the outstanding peace leaders, being president of the American Council of the World Alliance for Promoting International Friendship through the Churches. He was educated at Rutgers College and Union Theological Seminary, receiving from the former in 1904 the degree of Doctor of Divinity. His present ministry is with the Brick Presbyterian church, New York, having formerly served in Philadelphia and Chicago. He is the author of Faith Building, Faith and Sight and Footings for Faith. In the new department of The Quarterly-Christian Unity Pulpit—he appears with the first sermon. THE DIVINE PLAN OF UNION Is any one No mortal need fancy that he shall have the honor of devising either the plan of uniting Christians into one holy band of zealous coöperation, or of converting Jews and Gentiles to the faith that Jesus is that seed in whom all the families of the earth are yet to be blessed. The plan is divine. It is ordained by God; and, better still, it is already revealed. impatient to hear it? Let him again read the intercessions of the Lord Messiah in the seventeenth chapter of John. Let him then examine the two following propositions, and say whether these do not express Heaven's own scheme of augmenting and conservating the body of Christ. Nothing is essential to the conversion of the world but the union and coöperation of Christians. Nothing is essential to the union of Christians but the Apostles' teaching or testimony. Or does he choose to express the plan of the Self-Existent in other words? Then he may change the order, and say-The testimony of the Apostles is the only and all-sufficient means of uniting all Christians. The union of Christians with the Apostles' testimony is all-sufficient and alone sufficient to the conversion of the world. Neither truth alone nor union alone is sufficient to subdue the unbelieving nations; but truth and union combined are omnipotent. They are omnipotent, for God is in them and with them, and has consecrated and blessed them for this very purpose. -ALEXANDER CAMPBELL. |