Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1921-02-03 | Page 3 | Split in Church Held 'Disaster'

SPLIT IN CHURCH HELD DISASTER' Bishop Sciys Divided Church Gives Us Non-Believing World ST. lXJl.'lS. Teb. 3 Denominational division was characterized as "disaster" "disas-ter" t the cause of religion by the Rlghi itev. Ethelberl Talbot; Bpisco- p.il bj!ic. of L'.et hlehem, Fa., in an address Wednesday at the conference of i . preseni it h es of national and international in-ternational movements for church unity. The bishop, who is a member of the commission on Christian unity f the Kp? op. 1 1 ehuri h. dei la red I hat the neceeslt) for reunion has never been so apparent. "Before the present unprecedented need of the worldV" he asserted, "the Christian church stands with her life enfeebled, her witness weakened, her message In large measure discredited by her own differences and dissensions. dissen-sions. A divided church is gradually but surely giving us a non-believing world." Bishop Talbot explained the unification unifica-tion movement a-lvoeated by Ihe 1-iin- beth conference He said the on.- great difficulty" which remained lo be overcome ngreemenlt a.s to a "common "com-mon minlsti " K. v Samuel McComb, of Baltimore, canon of the Cntbednal of Maryland, "lei I. ( , .1 ! ,,l! -,),,! rill ., desire to find and Tealize truth but also a too narrow and restricted conception of the truth' is an underlying cans.- pf nearly all of the movements that have mad- tor a disunited Christian-dpm." Christian-dpm." Right Rev. Nloohd Volimirovio. of Serbia, bishop of the ISostOrn. rtho-dox rtho-dox c hurch, is attending the confer-