h World Movement" has set itself. At a
meeting in Atlantic City it was voted to raise the stupendous sum of
$1,300,000,000 to meet the requirements of this Pan-Protestant project.
Two thousand men and women are now (Feb. 1920,) busy at the head-office,
in New York, preparing the world-wide survey and financial campaign.[1]

The Protestant Churches in Canada are also falling in line in this
universal movement for unity. "_The United National Campaign_" which
marked 1919 with thirteen national conventions, represented the
co-operative feature of various churches in a general "_Forward
Movement_." The war, we all know, has impeded the projected union
between the Methodist, Presbyterian and Congregationalist denominations.
There is hardly any doubt that this union will be effected in the near
future. But as usual, while the East was deliberating, the forward and
aggressive West was acting. Church-Union is an accomplished fact in many
centres, particularly in the Province of Saskatchewan. Last October the
"Union Church of Western Canada" held a convention in Regina and reported
progress. Conditions in the West, especially in the rural districts,
naturally favour this movement. The strong denominational feeling is
becoming more and more a thing of the past. The identity of churches is
being absorbed in "social service" work, and sectarian peculiarities
considered "obsolete impertinences."

These are the various manifestations of the "Church-Union Movement."
Although loose thinking and indefiniteness of purpose characterize most
of these various moves, a close analysis reveals two different underlying
principles which support and explain them. As an Anglican clergyman
stated: "There are two courses open, uniting on points of agreement and
allowing the differences to settle themselves, or facing differences with
a view of settling them." The first course promotes a "_co-operative
union_" in social and Christian work. This union does not interfere with
matters of belief, but aims solely at the co-operation and co-ordination
of all services which the Churches can render in the missionary,
educational and social fields. It means a League or Federation of
Churches, with a view to "greater efficiency."

The other course goes deeper into the problem under discussion, for it
has as object an "_organic union_." This union means the fusing of all
denominational creeds and forms of worship, or, at least, the acceptance
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