Editorial April 25, 1903 Issue

The Church Universal

Editor

The growing disposition among Christian believers, to forget the petty particulars that have separated them, and join hands in a united effort for a common cause, is but one of many encouraging things which may be traced to the passing of the theory of verbal inspiration, for it is apparent that as attention is more and more centered upon the spiritual significance of the Scriptures, the dogmas and beliefs which have found their beginnings in an over-emphasis of literal statement, and which have led to so much of denominational cleavage and dissension, must be relegated to the realm of the unimportant.

At an interdenominational meeting of clergy recently held in New York, the spirit of practical affiliation was unusually pronounced, as is seen from the following excerpts taken from a newspaper report.

Said Dr. McConnell, "I can see no reason why there should be Presbyterian and Episcopal and Baptist and Methodist churches in this city of New York, and I look forward to the day when men of power in the community will have effected a union of the churches with that wonderful skill of combination which to-day is so apparent everywhere but in church life."

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