Article January 12, 1918 Issue

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with contributions from Robert W. Shaw, Robert F. Horton

[Rev. Robert W. Shaw in The Biblical World]

All the talks of church union have been along the lines of doctrine or of economic necessity. We have been tied to our creeds and presuppositions so closely that we have hardly dared think that union of the churches could really come about. It is quite possible, it seems to me, that what needs to be done, and what men have refused to do, God is going to do through this war. Unless the narrowness of sectarianism goes, another fellowship of some sort, broad enough for all whose lives are patterned after Christ's pattern but who may not be exact or dogmatic in their statements, will come. How I do not know, but it will come. We do not for a moment think that the church is going to pass away, but she will have to cast aside the graveclothes of conservatism and ecclesiasticism and return once more to the important facts of life and the vital facts of the gospel of Jesus, or God will raise up another people to carry out His will.

[Robert F. Horton, M.A., D.D., in The Christian Work]

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