The Church in America: A Study of the Present Condition and Future Prospects of American Protestantism (1922) - Hardcover

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This book expresses certain convictions concerning the opportunity and duty of the American Protestant churches which sum up the experience and reflection of many years. The immediate occasion for the book was furnished by my experience as Secretary of the General War-T ime Commission of the Churches and Chairman of the Committee on the Warand the Religious Outlook. The former was the organization through which the different Protestant denominations co-operated during the war. In this commission no less than thirty-nine different bodies were represented, including communions as different as the Episcopalians and the Southern Baptists. As secretary of this Commission I was not only brought into intimate association with many leaders of the larger Protestant communions as well as with representative Roman Catholics and Jews, but was obliged for the first time to make a comprehensive survey of the tasks and problems which confront the Church as a whole. The need which the war disclosed of a thoroughgoing co-operative study of these tasks and problems led to the organization, in 1918, of the Committee on the Warand the Religious Outlook. This is a group of men and women, some thirty in number, who have spent the last four years in a co-operative study of such fundamental subjects as the relation of the Church to industry, the missionary outlook in the light of the war, the teaching work of the Church, and the problems and possibilities of Christian unity. One of the motives which has led me to undertake this book has been the desire to bring the work of this committee to the attention of a wider public, and to enlist tiioughtful Christians of all the churches in the kind of inquiry it seeks to promote. But my interest in the subject to be discussed is of older date. As a member of the Board of Home Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A.
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