Religion: Mightiest Adventure

A great many potatoes have been grown since Martin Luther, hammer in hand, tacked his famed 95 theses on the church door at Wittenburg, in 1517. In 400 years the Christian Church has been split a hundred different ways by apostasy. Sects have sprung up like mushrooms in the night; few have died.

Twenty years ago, Canadian Presbyterians, Congregationalists, Methodists, perhaps remembering the words of St. Mark,* decided to serry their ranks and join a new United Church of Canada. For 20 years, excepting the War period, union has been hotly debated by a...

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