Religion: Presbyterians

Of the nine U. S. Presbyterian bodies, the three largest held annual conferences last week—Presbyterian Church in the United States of America (northern, largest) in Cincinnati; Presbyterian Church in the United States (southern, next largest) at Charlottesville, Va.; United Presbyterian Church of North America (middle western) in Des Moines. The imminence of the 1900th Pentecost (June 8) made general church union a prayed-for but no more practical topic than usual at each one of these meetings. Although the Presbyterians have been an exceedingly divisive denomination, most of...