National Affairs: Protestant Spokesman

When the Pope or some mighty cardinal issues a statement, the world knows that it represents the opinion of the Roman Catholic Church. But who is the spokesman of the populous Protestant churches? Not, for example, the Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals, which represents only one sect. There is an organization, however, whose pronouncements are few and carefully, prepared; it is the nearest approach to a Protestant opinion interpreter in the U. S.; its name is the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America and its president is Dr....

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