Religion: Irenic Merger

On a platform in Zion's Church in Cleveland one day last week, plump little Dr. Paul Press placed his small hand in the lean hand of sedate Dr. Henry Jacob Christman. They shook and in that shake was born a new U. S. sect. The Evangelical & Reformed Church is the result of a merger of the Reformed Church in the U. S. and the Evangelical Synod of North America. Each had held its last separate meeting before their 800 delegates gathered to witness the handclasp of union by their presidents.

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