Religion: Encyclopedias

An organization, of which the chief officers are Federal Judge* Henry Wade Rogers and Carl Elias Milliken, one-time Governor of Maine, announced that it would make every effort to produce an American Encyclopedia of Christianity. It is to be written with American pens dipped in Protestant ink.

The great Catholic encyclopedias are obvious, but probably improper parallels. At least one Catholic set treats of all manner of things, ecclesiastical, historical, scientific and otherwise, and treats of them all from a Catholic point of view. The plan of Judge Rogers' encyclopedia would seem to...

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