| Show NEED FOR presbyterian UNION I 1 by OR DR WILLIAM WILLIA 11 CHALMERS COVERT philadelphia I 1 advocate immediate and unconditional reunion of all branches bran clies of the presbyterian church tho the differences that arose out of the sorrows and of the battlefields of gl 61 to 65 have long ago found their solution in the hearts of those comrades of the blue and gray if those old fighters now on their final march have learned to walk together in in the love of a common lag flag so may presbyterians rians north and south who tire are their sons and share all their pride and their loyalties walk together under the bonnie blue flag flat 0 of presbyterianism presbyterian ism what they can do for their country countr y we can do for our christ doctrinal differences which heretofore have separated the various branches of the presbyterian church are negligible and minor differences every argument for reuniting the separated units of our great family has taken on now new urgency today every objection that has heretofore arisen to postpone and prevent this thia natural and inevitable oneness has less weir weight lit with tile the thoughtful thou hatful and devoted leaders in the church than at any time in a generation As to racial groupings in the church conditions condition that once justi justified fica or made congenial the separate groupings of presbyterians rians in ia the pioneer days have gone by because of the dilution of the old racial stocks and nd the universality and supremacy of the real american breed of presbyterianism |
