Brotherhood

The new United Church of Canada (Congregational, Methodist, Presbyterian) is a huge success, according to its Moderator, the Rt. Rev. James Endicott. Sailing last week down the St. Lawrence River, headed for Asiatic mission fields, this earnest, enthusiastic worker for Community found time to indite a detailed paean of jubilee of the working of the spirit in his domain that reaches from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Its conclusions were the more remarkable in that the work has been done in a year and a half (the United Church was inaugurated June 10, 1925); they were convincing in that their recorder had just concluded conferences with the great majority of both ministers and laymen in his Church from Victoria to Halifax.

He found 1) Ministers out of employment through consolidation have already been so completely placed that there is even a shortage. 2) While most U.S. and Canadian churches have lately experienced financial stress, the United Church not only has met heavy organization expense, but also has a surplus. 3) United Church government has avoided favoritism of any one branch, yet not been so dispassionate as to be unjust to specially able workers taken over from any field. 4) General Councils, while marked by wide difference of opinion, have not split on denominational lines; prejudices were transcended.

The Rt. Rev. Dr. Endicott, expressing himself as amazed and delighted with these results, gave constant credit to his henchmen, said nothing of himself.