Denominationalism in the U. S. is accustomed to justify itself by the thought that Truth appears to man in many different forms. With this and other commonplaces, the average American protestant evades the horrible thought that if the Presbyterian Church is the one true church, the Baptist Church is not, etc.
But the current justifications for denominationalism become thin when missionaries in foreign fields endeavor to translate them into heathen tongues. In Chinese, for example, the Methodist Episcopal Mission becomes, literally, "the doubly beautiful society," because there are two m's in M. E....
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