Show rou UNITY Bishop Johnston of West Texas some omO mouth mol th ago H O addressed ti l letter to th tM Pope Jn In n which he Iw suggested his hh holiness I cull a iI congress con ress ot of o Christian churches to the question of ot un unifying Christendom Ills HIs Idea Is that the Christian churches should bo be as ns a ang will willIng Ing ng to meet moot In the iho Interest of ot pence pen co and ncI brotherly love nn OR the Iho nations 0 o othe the tho world arts nN ei e to secure ponce peace Such Sucha a mooting meeting he ho says ay In his letter as this culled called by b the Pore 11 at nt this critical juncture would thrill nil ull Christendom to the center r wRit with hope mid and Joy and arni cause CUSO the tho powers of ot darkness to trem t rem blo We lest test they should lose Io their present evil domination over the human race TaCO such largo Iare portions of which they still hold In 11 bondage The Tho letter is commented on by b the religious press The and Christian World orld of at Boston Doston endors endorses s es CS the proposition as follows Is not TOt tho thU approaching when bodies of every name could profitably meet to consider ways ot of Ameliorating the contentions which have greatly greaty hindered tho the progress of ar Christianity throughout the tho world and ot or cooperation in where they have common to overcome ov Is not this the tIUi most opportune time of or the tho Christian era rn for tor such sueh a 1 con congress gross gress whim when the greatest movements of or history arc are being planned to win tho the whole world to Christ Is hi not Rome the center from which the light of ot the tha gospel of or Christ radiated through tho the world Wont In the tho first Christian centuries the plato for such a congress Is la laIt IsIt IsIt It unreasonable to think that Pope Plus PIUS X may that this may bo be bothe bothe bethe the greatest opportunity of or the tho hurch church churchIn i I In modern times Catholics take a less view The Freemans Journal says i Unless the various sects are wilting willing willingto to teachings of or o the tho church 1 thus divinely commissioned the work 1 ot disintegration o will steadily go on oni John JohnEton Johnstan i Sincere Protestants like ilka Bishop stan Eton may mil deplore the results result of or this dis disintegration disIntegration integration as manifested In the tho loss lOlls of at faith in Christianity itself but there thero I Is In no help for tor It Protestantism Protest did its bet best to destroy the Christian unity that existed e from the days of or Christ and his and ami now It has hall only itself to blame for the tho sad results to which the tho Bishop Dishop of or West Texas calls attention This is tho the real obstacle Rome Home does docs not compromise Rome can make mako no concessions such as all Protestants de do demand domand mand A congress of ot churches would not riot result In unification or amalgamation lion tion hut hilt would it therefore bo be Je without result Thoughtful men und and women In tho tha th i Christian world reel feel tho the need of ot a unit united ed Oct church They y know that division is isa Isn Isa a n cause of ot o weakness In tho thu battle baW against sin nod and Its Us fearful cs as esThe They Ire are alarmed at It the tho loss ot or In of or tho the gospel which Is In social political Industrial and all other fields ot or human activity But Dut there thoro Is no remedy except the direct Interference of the tho Almighty In human affairs such us as has bas taken place In all important and critical periods in tho thu history of or man If It the tho divine was needed to set human affairs in or order 0 orter der ter in tho the time of or the Patriarchs Mos Mon Moses MonOs es Os Ezra Ezro and the tho beginning of oC our own era It is 1 no less needed at this time when without special divine guidance nations and individuals seem to IKS be at atthe atthe atthe the mercy at of the aggressive lve and over overwhelming overwhelming whelming forces of or evil vII II Tho disciples disciple In the th boat tossed about by y tho the waves j exhausted by toll needed edd the tho of ot tho the dl no Master to rebuke tho the wind anti calm the tho sea and that Is the need of or His Ills people In this tillS age ase of rag raging ragIng ragIng ing storms |