At Stockholm

Seven years ago, when the world was rolling in the pangs of its worst anguish before giving birth to a red and painful peace, Dr. Soderblom, Archbishop of Upsala, dreamed that the churches, like the nations, might meet at a conference table. He began to make plans. Last week his labor and vision were consummated. The Universal Christian Conference on Life and Work began its first session in Stockholm, Sweden.

The purpose of this conference, outlined under a redundant series of headings, is vague and expansive. Reduced to simplest form, it constitutes an attempt to regain for the many branches of the Church a common, definite ethic. The international committee is composed of four groups: for the Protestant churches of Europe, for the Eastern Orthodox churches, for the British Commonwealth of Nations, for the U. S. Present at its sessions are such famed churchmen as: Dr. S. Parkes Cadman of Brooklyn, Dr. Arthur J. Brown of Manhattan, the Bishop of Winchester, the Metropolitan of Sofia, the Metropolitan of Thyateria.