The world's largest Protestant church looked hopefully last week toward Christian unity.
It was the first Quadrennial General Conference the Methodists had held in Boston for 96 years. On hand were 60-odd bishops and 7,000 lesser clergymen and laymen from some 50 countries. They represented 21 million Christians who call themselves Methodists.
The keynote of Christian unity was struck, and ringingly struck, by New York's Bishop Garfield Bromley Oxnam, in the Episcopal Address. The Episcopal Address, prepared and delivered by one bishop, but edited and initialed by all of them, is a kind of...
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