Article February 19, 1903 Issue

Advocates a Change

Boston Herald

"THE intrusion of the word 'Protestant' in our title is a stain upon our escutcheon.... It emblazons a falsity.... It puts us in strange and objectionable company.... It is an anachronism."

These quotations contain, in a nutshell form, the sentiments of Bishop Cortlandt Whitehead of Pittsburg, Pa., as expressed in his address last evening [February II] at Trinity Church, on the desirability of a change in the name of the Protestant Episcopal Church of America.

The word "Protestantism," he declared, has degenerated in the past one hundred years, and in its general acceptation now stands as a name for sects which no self-respecting Episcopalian should be willing to have in the same category with his own church.

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