Congregationalists

At Omaha, Neb., the national council of the Congregational Church met for conference last week; elected President Ozora S. Davis of Chicago Theological Seminary moderator, onetime Governor William E. Sweet of Colorado vice moderator, President Calvin Coolidge honorary moderator (for the third time); organized the Congregationalists Home Board to perpetrate home missions, church building, Sunday school extension, educational and publishing work theretofore handled by separate boards; heard a committee recommend a merger of Congregationalists with Universalists, Christians, United Brethern, Brethern and Methodist Protestants.

Of Moderator Davis, a leaflet of the Chicago Theological Seminary says: "A sturdy body, attached to Chippendale legs, and surmounted by a bulldog profile--that is your first impression of him. Afterward his twinkling eyes and gigantic laughter would attract you" He was born in Vermont; worked in his youth as a railroad telegrapher; preached, while his hair was yet red, at Newtonville, Mass., near Wellesley College and Boston; made the Chicago Seminary attractive to midwestern and southern divinity students. He is < years old.