4185 — Members of the Federal Council of Churches
By Editor
Would you kindly tell me, through your Question Corner, the names of each denomination that has joined the Federal Council of Churches? A volume entitled "Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America," edited by the corresponding secretary, Elias B. Sandford, D. D., published by Revell in 1909, gives the following list of churches as those that shall be entitled to representation in the Federal Council on their approval of the purpose and plan of the organization: Baptist churches of the United States; Free Baptist General Conference; National Baptist Convention (African); Christians (the Christian Connection); Congregational churches; Congregational Methodist churches; Disciples of Christ; Evangelical Association; Evangelical Synod of North America; Friends; Evangelical Lutheran Church, General Synod; Methodist Episcopal Church; Methodist Episcopal Church, South; Primitive Methodist Church; Colored Methodist Church in America; Methodist Protestant Church; African Methodist Episcopal Church; African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church; General Conference of the Mennonite Church of North America; Moravian Church; Presbyterian Church in the United States of America; Presbyterian Church in the United States; Welsh Calvinistic Methodist or Presbyterian Church; Reformed Presbyterian Church; United Presbyterian Church; Protestant Episcopal Church; Reformed Church in America; Reformed Church of the United States of America; Reformed Episcopal Church; Seventh-day Baptist churches; Swedish Lutheran Augustana Synod; United Brethren in Christ; United Evangelical Church. It is but fair to state, however, that there are those in every one of these churches, and preeminently so in the Baptist Church, who have protested against such federation. They feel that it is taking away the individuality from the church, and is compromising some important particulars in their faith.