Religion: Protestants at Pittsburgh

Should Easter fall on the same day every year, instead of shifting with the moon? Last week at the biennial meeting of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, 300 delegates representing 26,000,000 Protestants of 25 denominations addressed themselves to the problem. Their recommendation: it should fall on the second Sunday in April, as nearest the historic date of the Resurrection."*

The delegates also:

ΒΆ Admitted to Council membership the Russian Orthodox Church of America (300,000 members), rejected the Universalist Church of America because its members, like Unitarians, do not...

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