Movement Toward Christian Union Most Significant Trend In the Church Today By REV. O. M. PENNOCK, Pastor Christian Church, Yoakum, Tela. The most significant trend in the church today is the movement toward to-ward Christian union. This movement is manifested in at least two different, differ-ent, though kindred, ways. First, there is a broad spirit of genuine friendliness, friend-liness, brotherhood and Christian tolerance manifested among the different churches, and this spirit is increasing. There are those who mistake this spirit of tolerance for the unity which the church needs. It is far from unity, and yet it makes possible co-operation in many fields of effort and loads to a better understanding and appreciation of one another, which is necessary in order to bring about the unity that is to come. The other manifestation of this union movement ia seen in the effort, sometimes successful, to unite kindred religious bodies, in the commissions on Christian union appointed by many communions, and in the fact that the ablest writers and thinkers cf all religious bodies are discussing the subject on platform and with pen. If there is to be found an acceptable basis of union it must be found in the New Testament scriptures, for this is the only authority which all accept, and from which there is no appeal, and can be no dissent. Upon the vital things of Christianity the churches are practically agreed, and all can safely trust to the united scholarship of the past and present as to the interpretation of the New Testament upon all essential points.