Religion: What Is Unity?

For several years a group of 15 private schools near the most fashionable part of Manhattan's Park Avenue has held an annual series of nondenominational vesper services. At the first of this year's services, held in the Episcopal St. James' Church, the Rev. Laurance I. Neale of the Unitarian Church of All Souls was one of the officiating clergymen. To one Protestant prelate this was carrying Protestant unity a little too far. Last week, retired Episcopal Bishop William T. Manning, 82, took sharp note of it in a letter to two New York newspapers:

"The Unitarians honestly disbelieve and deny the facts...

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