Congregational Compact

"We cannot personally participate at the council table of the nations in the formation of a new order. We can pledge ourselves to demand and support such plans and only such plans as will bring at last a just and righteous order." This statement was written by the Congregational Moderator to the 4,000 ministers of the Congregational Christian Churches this week.

With Moderator Ferdinand Q. Blanchard's letter went the Congregational Christian Compact for World Order, 1944. It was patterned after the Mayflower Compact of 1620, in which the Pilgrims pledged themselves to work for a new world of freedom. At a special service, which will be held in their churches on May 21, Congregationalists will sign the 1944 Compact. From all over the U.S. the signed Compacts will go to Grand Rapids, where they will be dedicated during the biennial General Council (June 25). The Compact: "In the name of God, Amen. We whose names are underwritten, loyal members of Church of do solemnly and mutually, in the presence of God and one another, covenant and combine ourselves together to work for a just and cooperative world order. We pray that our nation shall help to establish an international organization for the bet ter ordering of the interdependent life of nations, the preservation of peace with justice, and the furtherance of the general good of all peoples. Unto this great task we commit our wills and our ways. In witness whereof we have hereunder subscribed our names. Anno Domini, 1944."

To help their Compact accomplish something, the million U.S. Congregationalists are asked to write their Senators and delegates to Party conventions, telling them that Congregationalists (like Methodists and Baptists, who are conducting similar drives) want "a world reorganization which will justify the price of victory."

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