COMMON WORSHIP

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 26 October 1928, Page 5

COMMON WORSHIP

PROTESTANT AND CATHOLIC PASTORAL LETTER BY AMERICAN BISHOPS United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright United Service (Received 26th October, 1.5 p.m.) WASHINGTON, 25th October. "If Catholic and Protestant cannot find a way to live together and worship together the one Lord they both adore, then our faith is in vain and we live in our sin," said a pastoral letter of the Bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church issued to-day, stressing the need for finding common ground for worship for all here in America and throughout the entire Anglican communion. "There is a sense of strain," declared the Right Rev. Edward Parsons, Bishop of California, heading the letter. "One group seeks a fuller measure of what it counts Catholic. Another group is sick- at heart lest some of those great values gained in the Reformation are lost. The most momentous task facing the world to-day is war against war. It is not the business of the Christian Church to control Governments, but it is the business of the Church to speak in no uncertain way and putting moral force behind its efforts for peace and a law-governed world. Christ summons us to world unity as well as church unity."